FILM DIRECTOR

John Lasseter

1957 - Today

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John Alan Lasseter ( LASS-ə-tər; born January 12, 1957) is an American film director, producer, and animator. He has served as the Head of Animation at Skydance Animation since 2019. Previously, he acted as the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and Disneytoon Studios, as well as the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering.Lasseter began his career as an animator with The Walt Disney Company. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Lasseter has received more than 5,107,237 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). John Lasseter is the 460th most popular film director (up from 470th in 2019), the 2,930th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,989th in 2019) and the 119th most popular American Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of John Lasseters by language

Over the past year John Lasseter has had the most page views in the with 538,495 views, followed by Japanese (61,269), and Spanish (46,414). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Kurdish (Sorani) (191.40%), Simple English (99.72%), and Uzbek (74.05%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, John Lasseter ranks 460 out of 2,041. Before him are Maya Deren, Umberto Lenzi, Jacques Deray, Delbert Mann, Glauber Rocha, and Lung Chien. After him are Yoshiyuki Tomino, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Nadine Trintignant, Tom Holland, Patricio Guzmán, and Mauro Bolognini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, John Lasseter ranks 87. Before him are Mikhail Kasyanov, Ricardo Darín, Frank Miller, Emmanuel Carrère, Paweł Pawlikowski, and Jaggi Vasudev. After him are Thierry Boutsen, José Sócrates, Bruce Beutler, Esmail Ghaani, Dan Castellaneta, and Ted Levine.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Lasseter ranks 2,930 out of 20,380. Before him are Douglas Hofstadter (1945), Elizabeth Loftus (1944), George Dewey (1837), Terry Bisson (1942), Smokey Robinson (1940), and Paul Strand (1890). After him are Ivy Lee (1877), Rebecca De Mornay (1959), Bobby Riggs (1918), King Oliver (1881), Bobby Darin (1936), and Edward Kasner (1878).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, John Lasseter ranks 119. Before him are Walter Lantz (1899), Delmer Daves (1904), Don Bluth (1937), William A. Wellman (1896), Nick Castle (1947), and Delbert Mann (1920). After him are Tom Holland (1943), John Hughes (1950), Robert Rossen (1908), Richard Lester (1932), Edward Zwick (1952), and Jim Abrahams (1944).

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Filmography

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