FILM DIRECTOR

John Schlesinger

1926 - 2003

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John Richard Schlesinger ( SHLESS-in-jər; 16 February 1926 – 25 July 2003) was an English film and stage director, and actor. He emerged in the early 1960s as a leading light of the British New Wave, before embarking on a successful career in Hollywood, often directing films dealing frankly in provocative subject matter, combined with his status as one of the rare openly gay directors working in mainstream films. Schlesinger started his career making British dramas A Kind of Loving (1962), Billy Liar (1963), and Far from the Madding Crowd (1967). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Schlesinger has received more than 1,158,145 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). John Schlesinger is the 280th most popular film director (down from 265th in 2019), the 1,127th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,134th in 2019) and the 19th most popular British Film Director.

John Schlesinger is most famous for directing the films Midnight Cowboy, Sunday Bloody Sunday, and Marathon Man.

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  • 44

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  • 4.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, John Schlesinger ranks 280 out of 2,041. Before him are Franklin J. Schaffner, Denis Villeneuve, Elem Klimov, Robert J. Flaherty, Jerzy Stuhr, and Zack Snyder. After him are Adrian Lyne, Ub Iwerks, Cecil B. DeMille, Tex Avery, Sam Raimi, and Spike Lee.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, John Schlesinger ranks 104. Before him are Youssef Chahine, Efraín Ríos Montt, Verner Panton, Shigeo Sugimoto, Paul Baran, and Maria Teresa de Filippis. After him are Rehavam Ze'evi, Roger Corman, Riz Ortolani, Shin Sang-ok, Rafi Eitan, and Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo. Among people deceased in 2003, John Schlesinger ranks 66. Before him are Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza, Uday Hussein, Bob Hope, László Papp, June Carter Cash, and Elem Klimov. After him are Ilan Ramon, Vasil Bykaŭ, Miloš Milutinović, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Michael Jeter, and Walt Whitman Rostow.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Schlesinger ranks 1,127 out of 8,785. Before him are Bob Paisley (1919), Johannes de Sacrobosco (1195), Taron Egerton (1989), Elizabeth Siddal (1829), Flinders Petrie (1853), and Leopold Stokowski (1882). After him are Alexander II of Scotland (1198), John Pople (1925), Idris Elba (1972), Harold Lowe (1882), Vita Sackville-West (1892), and John Stewart Bell (1928).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, John Schlesinger ranks 19. Before him are Danny Boyle (1956), Carol Reed (1906), Guy Ritchie (1968), Tony Richardson (1928), Frank Lloyd (1886), and David Hamilton (1933). After him are Adrian Lyne (1941), John Boorman (1933), Anthony Minghella (1954), J. Lee Thompson (1914), Roland Joffé (1945), and Sam Mendes (1965).

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Filmography

Midnight Cowboy
Director
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
May 25o 19697.516 / 10
Marathon Man
Director
A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
Oct 8o 19767.199 / 10
Pacific Heights
Director
A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.
Sep 28o 19906.2 / 10