FILM DIRECTOR

Joseph Losey

1909 - 1984

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Joseph Walton Losey III (; January 14, 1909 – June 22, 1984) was an American theatre and film director, producer, and screenwriter. Born in Wisconsin, he studied in Germany with Bertolt Brecht and then returned to the United States. Blacklisted by Hollywood in the 1950s, he moved to Europe where he made the remainder of his films, mostly in the United Kingdom. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Losey has received more than 491,123 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Joseph Losey is the 264th most popular film director (down from 221st in 2019), the 1,719th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,480th in 2019) and the 69th most popular American Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 490k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Joseph Loseys by language

Over the past year Joseph Losey has had the most page views in the with 66,161 views, followed by French (25,172), and Italian (12,998). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Esperanto (523.08%), Greek (145.21%), and Serbo-Croatian (89.93%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Joseph Losey ranks 264 out of 2,041. Before him are Menahem Golan, Henri Verneuil, Frank Lloyd, Robert Aldrich, John Frankenheimer, and Hideaki Anno. After him are David Hamilton, Robert Siodmak, Damiano Damiani, Germaine Dulac, Bigas Luna, and Jean Epstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Joseph Losey ranks 58. Before him are James Mason, Otto Kumm, Art Tatum, Princess Ileana of Romania, Hideo Sakai, and Aenne Burda. After him are Nikolay Bogolyubov, Grażyna Bacewicz, Clement Greenberg, Golo Mann, Mikhail Mil, and Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche. Among people deceased in 1984, Joseph Losey ranks 50. Before him are Pavel Batitsky, James Mason, Yılmaz Güney, Brassaï, Jackie Coogan, and Jerzy Popiełuszko. After him are Chaïm Perelman, George Gaylord Simpson, Branko Ćopić, Hans Speidel, Rodrigo Lara, and Count Basie.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Losey ranks 1,719 out of 20,380. Before him are Alfred Stieglitz (1864), Barnett Newman (1905), Patricia Neal (1926), John Frankenheimer (1930), Fran Drescher (1957), and Robert Bloch (1917). After him are Gene Roddenberry (1921), Fred Ward (1942), Larry Page (1973), John Forsythe (1918), Lou Ferrigno (1951), and Husband E. Kimmel (1882).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Joseph Losey ranks 69. Before him are James Ivory (1928), John Sturges (1910), Peter Bogdanovich (1939), Richard Fleischer (1916), Robert Aldrich (1918), and John Frankenheimer (1930). After him are Robert J. Flaherty (1884), Zack Snyder (1966), Ub Iwerks (1901), Cecil B. DeMille (1881), Tex Avery (1908), and Sam Raimi (1959).

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Filmography

Mr. Klein
Director
Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly persecuted, discovers by chance that there is another Robert Klein, apparently a Jewish man; someone with whom he could be mistakenly identified, something dangerous in such harsh times.
Sep 23o 19767.3 / 10
The Go-Between
Director
British teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the beautiful young aristocrat Marian. Eager to impress her, Leo becomes the "go-between" for Marian, delivering secret romantic letters to Ted Burgess, a handsome neighboring farmer.
Jun 16o 19716.8 / 10
The Servant
Director
Hugo Barrett is a servant in the Chelsea home of indolent aristocrat Tony. All seems to go well until the playboy’s girlfriend Susan takes a dislike to the efficient employee. Then Barrett persuades Tony to hire his sister Vera as a live-in maid, and matters take another turn for the worse…
Nov 14o 19637.543 / 10