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 2,115,588 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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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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Filmography

Apocalypse Now
Director
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
Aug 15o 19798.276 / 10
Conan the Barbarian
Director
A horde of rampaging warriors massacre the parents of young Conan and enslave the young child for years on The Wheel of Pain. As the sole survivor of the childhood massacre, Conan is released from slavery and taught the ancient arts of fighting. Transforming himself into a killing machine, Conan travels into the wilderness to seek vengeance on Thulsa Doom, the man responsible for killing his family. In the wilderness, Conan takes up with the thieves Valeria and Subotai. The group comes upon King Osric, who wants the trio of warriors to help rescue his daughter who has joined Doom in the hills.
Apr 2o 19826.804 / 10
Clear and Present Danger
Director
Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Clark is sent to Colombia to kill drug cartel kingpins in retaliation, Ryan must fight through multiple cover-ups to figure out what happened and who's responsible.
Aug 3o 19946.641 / 10