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 3,484,963 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Jonathan Demme is the 147th most popular film director (up from 168th in 2019), the 980th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,091st in 2019) and the 39th most popular American Film Director.

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

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 61

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Jonathan Demmes by language

Over the past year Jonathan Demme has had the most page views in the with 433,015 views, followed by French (38,624), and Italian (35,938). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (145.15%), Kirghiz (128.48%), and Haitian (115.69%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jonathan Demme ranks 147 out of 2,041. Before him are Michael Cimino, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Max Reinhardt, and Alice Guy-Blaché. After him are Frances Marion, Louis Malle, Ettore Scola, Victor Sjöström, Ed Wood, and Alexander Dovzhenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Jonathan Demme ranks 72. Before him are Udo Kier, Serge Haroche, Abdul Hamid, Klaus Nomi, Claudia Mori, and Bernhard Schlink. After him are Gérard Mourou, Nǃxau ǂToma, Kary Mullis, Ashraf Marwan, R. Lee Ermey, and W. G. Sebald. Among people deceased in 2017, Jonathan Demme ranks 49. Before him are Powers Boothe, George A. Romero, Ryke Geerd Hamer, Harry Dean Stanton, Kenneth Arrow, and Oliver Smithies. After him are Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, Al Jarreau, Danielle Darrieux, John Surtees, and George Andrew Olah.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jonathan Demme ranks 980 out of 20,380. Before him are Tom Waits (1949), Julius Axelrod (1912), James Horner (1953), Ritchie Valens (1941), John Archibald Wheeler (1911), and Richard Dreyfuss (1947). After him are Marilyn vos Savant (1946), Queen Noor of Jordan (1951), Tippi Hedren (1930), Harry Markowitz (1927), Cormac McCarthy (1933), and Matt Groening (1954).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Jonathan Demme ranks 39. Before him are Victor Fleming (1889), Wes Craven (1939), William Hanna (1910), George A. Romero (1940), D. W. Griffith (1875), and Michael Cimino (1939). After him are Frances Marion (1888), Ed Wood (1924), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909), Joel Schumacher (1939), Gordon Parks (1912), and Don Siegel (1912).

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Filmography

The Silence of the Lambs
Director
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
Feb 14o 19918.346 / 10
Philadelphia
Director
Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.
Dec 22o 19937.729 / 10
The Manchurian Candidate
Director
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.
Jul 30o 20046.466 / 10