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FILM DIRECTOR

John Boorman

1933 - Today

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Sir John Boorman (; born 18 January 1933) is a British filmmaker. He is best known for directing feature films such as Point Blank (1967), Hell in the Pacific (1968), Deliverance (1972), Zardoz (1974), Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), Excalibur (1981), The Emerald Forest (1985), Hope and Glory (1987), The General (1998), The Tailor of Panama (2001) and Queen and Country (2014). Boorman has directed 20 films and received five Academy Award nominations, twice for Best Director (for Deliverance, and Hope and Glory). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Boorman has received more than 1,796,070 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). John Boorman is the 334th most popular film director (down from 320th in 2019), the 1,333rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,322nd in 2019) and the 21st most popular British Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, John Boorman ranks 334 out of 1,581. Before him are Jerome Robbins, Jan de Bont, Marco Bellocchio, François Ozon, Ub Iwerks, and Chantal Akerman. After him are Raúl Ruiz, Park Chan-wook, Edward Zwick, Makoto Shinkai, Samuel Fuller, and Maya Deren.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, John Boorman ranks 117. Before him are Sheldon Adelson, Princess Marie Louise of Bulgaria, Elem Klimov, Carlos Correia, Bata Živojinović, and Sabah Fakhri. After him are Máté Fenyvesi, Wayne Shorter, Joachim Kroll, Sacha Distel, Fred Haise, and György Konrád.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Boorman ranks 1,333 out of 7,765. Before him are Julian Glover (1935), Seamus Heaney (1939), Walafrid Strabo (808), Peter Burke (1937), Fletcher Christian (1764), and Gildas (500). After him are Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (1774), Rhys Ifans (1967), John Eliot Gardiner (1943), Dominic Purcell (1970), Evelyn De Morgan (1855), and Bernie Taupin (1950).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, John Boorman ranks 21. Before him are Stephen Frears (1941), David Hamilton (1933), John Schlesinger (1926), Frank Lloyd (1886), Carol Reed (1906), and Sam Mendes (1965). After him are Ken Russell (1927), John Guillermin (1925), Derek Jarman (1942), Anthony Minghella (1954), Michael Apted (1941), and Adrian Lyne (1941).

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Filmography

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