FILM DIRECTOR

Joel Schumacher

1939 - 2020

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Joel T. Schumacher (; August 29, 1939 – June 22, 2020) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and fashion designer. Raised in New York City by his mother, Schumacher graduated from Parsons School of Design and became a fashion designer. He first entered film-making as a production and costume designer before gaining writing credits on Car Wash, Sparkle, and The Wiz. Schumacher received little attention for his first theatrically-released films, The Incredible Shrinking Woman and D.C. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joel Schumacher has received more than 3,346,407 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Joel Schumacher is the 86th most popular film director (up from 154th in 2019), the 602nd most popular biography from United States (up from 1,028th in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Film Director.

Joel Schumacher is most famous for directing the Batman movies, Batman Forever and Batman and Robin.

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  • 73.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Joel Schumacher ranks 86 out of 1,580. Before him are Dziga Vertov, William Hanna, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Sergei Parajanov, David Lean, and David Cronenberg. After him are Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jim Jarmusch, Oliver Stone, John Huston, Fred Zinnemann, and Victor Fleming.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Joel Schumacher ranks 25. Before him are Giovanni Falcone, Paul Hogan, Karel Gott, Ada Yonath, Jackie Stewart, and Peter Grünberg. After him are Laurent-Désiré Kabila, F. Murray Abraham, Ali MacGraw, John Cleese, Tzvetan Todorov, and Clay Regazzoni. Among people deceased in 2020, Joel Schumacher ranks 28. Before him are Qasem Soleimani, Lee Teng-hui, Tabaré Vázquez, George Steiner, Geert Hofstede, and Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. After him are Oliver E. Williamson, Kenny Rogers, Stirling Moss, John le Carré, Mirella Freni, and Luis Sepúlveda.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joel Schumacher ranks 602 out of 15,968. Before him are Talia Shire (1946), John Deere (1804), Margaret Keane (1927), Burt Reynolds (1936), Telly Savalas (1922), and Oprah Winfrey (1954). After him are Douglas Fairbanks (1883), Jim Jarmusch (1953), George Eastman (1854), Clyde Tombaugh (1906), Bill Russell (1934), and Dolly Parton (1946).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Joel Schumacher ranks 21. Before him are Robert Zemeckis (1952), Terrence Malick (1943), George A. Romero (1940), Howard Hawks (1896), Stephen Hillenburg (1961), and William Hanna (1910). After him are Jim Jarmusch (1953), Oliver Stone (1946), John Huston (1906), Victor Fleming (1889), Sidney Lumet (1924), and Robert Altman (1925).

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Filmography

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