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FILM DIRECTOR

Joseph Vilsmaier

1939 - 2020

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Joseph Vilsmaier (pronounced [ˈjoː.zɛf ˈfɪls.maɪ̯.ɐ] , 24 January 1939 – 11 February 2020) was a German film director who began his career as a technician and cameraman. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Vilsmaier has received more than 104,278 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Joseph Vilsmaier is the 773rd most popular film director (down from 504th in 2019), the 3,566th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,510th in 2019) and the 40th most popular German Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Joseph Vilsmaier ranks 773 out of 1,581Before him are Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Stephen Hopkins, Bruno Dumont, Dante Ferretti, Edmund Goulding, and Richard C. Sarafian. After him are Corey Yuen, George Marshall, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Jerry Schatzberg, František Vláčil, and Edgar Wright.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Joseph Vilsmaier ranks 273Before him are Tom Hayden, Dezső Novák, John Peel, Vaçe Zela, Romualdo Arppi Filho, and Ole Ellefsæter. After him are Mulayam Singh Yadav, Ljiljana Petrović, László Kovács, Billy Cox, Nancy Kwan, and Valery Rozhdestvensky. Among people deceased in 2020, Joseph Vilsmaier ranks 286Before him are Jerry Sloan, Bernard Stiegler, Sonja Edström, Paul Goma, Hédi Baccouche, and Karin Lindberg. After him are Jimmy Cobb, Vladica Popović, Alfred Körner, Johnny Nash, Sisavath Keobounphanh, and Juan Giménez.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joseph Vilsmaier ranks 3,566 out of 6,142Before him are Jürgen Croy (1946), Heinrich Schrader (1767), Gottfried Fuchs (1889), André Schürrle (1990), Botho Strauß (1944), and Emil von Sauer (1862). After him are Princess Ida of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1804), Anton Ackermann (1905), Paul Reinecke (1872), Hillel Furstenberg (1935), Franz Xaver Gabelsberger (1789), and Heinrich Zimmer (1890).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Joseph Vilsmaier ranks 40Before him are Uli Edel (1947), Wolfgang Becker (1954), Uwe Boll (1965), Hans-Jürgen Syberberg (1935), Konrad Wolf (1925), and Michael Verhoeven (1938). After him are Marc Forster (1969), Edgar Reitz (1932), Wolfgang Staudte (1906), Christian Petzold (1960), Ludwig Berger (1892), and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (1973).

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