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FILM DIRECTOR

Jonathan Demme

1944 - 2017

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Robert Jonathan Demme ( DEM-ee; February 22, 1944 – April 26, 2017) was an American filmmaker, whose career directing, producing, and screenwriting spanned more than 30 years and 70 feature films, documentaries, and television productions. He was an Academy Award and a Directors Guild of America Award winner, and received nominations for a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and three Independent Spirit Awards. Beginning his career under B-movie producer Roger Corman, Demme made his directorial debut with the 1974 women-in-prison film Caged Heat, before becoming known for his casually humanist films such as Melvin and Howard (1980), Swing Shift (1984), Something Wild (1986), and Married to the Mob (1988). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jonathan Demme has received more than 3,531,785 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Jonathan Demme is the 168th most popular film director (down from 151st in 2019), the 1,091st most popular biography from United States (down from 997th in 2019) and the 45th most popular American Film Director.

Jonathan Demme is most famous for directing the movie The Silence of the Lambs.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 59

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.87

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jonathan Demme ranks 168 out of 1,581. Before him are Guillermo del Toro, Jacques Rivette, Nagisa Oshima, William Friedkin, Masaki Kobayashi, and Alexander Dovzhenko. After him are Kathryn Bigelow, Bille August, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jesús Franco, Nikita Mikhalkov, and Claude Lanzmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Jonathan Demme ranks 62. Before him are Jean-Pierre Léaud, Luigi Riva, Abdul Hamid, R. Lee Ermey, John Holmes, and Rudy Giuliani. After him are Bora Milutinović, Norodom Ranariddh, Udo Kier, Peter Weir, Maria João Pires, and David J. Wineland. Among people deceased in 2017, Jonathan Demme ranks 53. Before him are Jean Rochefort, Emma Morano, Chester Bennington, Mauno Koivisto, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and Powers Boothe. After him are George Andrew Olah, Harry Dean Stanton, Adam West, Georges Prêtre, Giovanni Sartori, and Oliver Smithies.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jonathan Demme ranks 1,091 out of 18,182. Before him are Ernie Hudson (1945), William H. Macy (1950), Muddy Waters (1913), Éamon de Valera (1882), Edmund Phelps (1933), and Douglas Fairbanks (1883). After him are James Jones (1921), Edmund Kemper (1948), Kathryn Bigelow (1951), Sugar Ray Robinson (1921), Roger Zelazny (1937), and Larry Page (1973).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Jonathan Demme ranks 45. Before him are Joel Schumacher (1939), Blake Edwards (1922), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909), Ed Wood (1924), Robert Wise (1914), and William Friedkin (1935). After him are Kathryn Bigelow (1951), Robert Aldrich (1918), Don Siegel (1912), James Ivory (1928), Vincente Minnelli (1903), and Stanley Kramer (1913).

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Filmography

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