FILM DIRECTOR

John Milius

1944 - Today

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John Frederick Milius (; born April 11, 1944) is an American screenwriter and film director. He was a writer for the first two Dirty Harry films, received an Academy Award nomination as screenwriter of Apocalypse Now (1979), and wrote and directed The Wind and the Lion (1975), Conan the Barbarian (1982), and Red Dawn (1984). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Milius has received more than 2,154,512 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). John Milius is the 507th most popular film director (up from 556th in 2019), the 3,169th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,691st in 2019) and the 130th most popular American Film Director.

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  • 60.73

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  • 28

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  • 3.29

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  • 3.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, John Milius ranks 507 out of 2,041. Before him are Ernst Marischka, Gleb Panfilov, Vicente Aranda, Marcel Camus, Henry Koster, and Michael Apted. After him are Alessandro Blasetti, Lee Chang-dong, Richard Boleslawski, Ted Kotcheff, Sam Wood, and Clarence Brown.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, John Milius ranks 250. Before him are Edgar Froese, Jean-Daniel Cadinot, Francisco Sagasti, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Fernando Ocáriz Braña, and Wesley Clark. After him are Bernd Bransch, James Michel, Juan Ramón Verón, Angela Winkler, Nicholas, Crown Prince of Montenegro, and Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Milius ranks 3,169 out of 20,380. Before him are Zac Efron (1987), Angry Grandpa (1950), William Labov (1927), Wesley Clark (1944), Michael Bishop (1945), and George William Hill (1838). After him are Anthony Edwards (1962), Alice B. Toklas (1877), Artie Shaw (1910), Richard Hamming (1915), Lesley Gore (1946), and Marlena Shaw (1939).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, John Milius ranks 130. Before him are Edward Zwick (1952), Jim Abrahams (1944), John Waters (1946), Curtis Hanson (1945), Richard Thorpe (1896), and Abel Ferrara (1951). After him are Sam Wood (1883), Clarence Brown (1890), Jennifer Lee (1971), Philip Kaufman (1936), Kenneth Anger (1927), and Martin Ritt (1914).

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