FILM DIRECTOR

Ján Kadár

1918 - 1979

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Ján Kadár (1 April 1918 – 1 June 1979) was a Slovak film writer and director of Jewish heritage. As a filmmaker, he worked in Czechoslovakia, the United States, and Canada. Most of his films were directed in tandem with Elmar Klos. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ján Kadár has received more than 82,437 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Ján Kadár is the 581st most popular film director (down from 558th in 2019), the 320th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 293rd in 2019) and the 11th most popular Hungarian Film Director.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Ján Kadár ranks 581 out of 2,041. Before him are Roger Donaldson, Rintaro, Frederick Wiseman, Budd Boetticher, Henri Colpi, and Carlo Lizzani. After him are Juzo Itami, Jaco Van Dormael, Michael Powell, Bernd Eichinger, Ferzan Özpetek, and Fatih Akin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Ján Kadár ranks 135. Before him are Marie Smith Jones, Cameron Mitchell, Elmore James, Abdul Haris Nasution, James Aldridge, and Cheddi Jagan. After him are Jerome Robbins, Jelle Zijlstra, Suzanne Flon, Ted Williams, Bruno Zevi, and Jay Wright Forrester. Among people deceased in 1979, Ján Kadár ranks 115. Before him are Antun Augustinčić, Fulton J. Sheen, Dirk Stikker, Frederick Stafford, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, and Ita Rina. After him are Vsevolod Bobrov, José Della Torre, Arno Schmidt, Johan Borgen, Ludwig Renn, and Kurt Jooss.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Ján Kadár ranks 320 out of 1,077. Before him are Gyula Peidl (1873), Árpád Szakasits (1888), Márton Bukovi (1903), László Fazekas (1947), Ferenc Seres (1945), and Elizabeth Granowska (1372). After him are Frigyes Riesz (1880), Miklós Radnóti (1909), Raoul Bott (1923), Tivadar Puskás (1844), Ottó Bláthy (1860), and Catherine Schell (1944).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Hungary

Among film directors born in Hungary, Ján Kadár ranks 11. Before him are Márta Mészáros (1931), Adolph Zukor (1873), Ladislao Vajda (1906), László Benedek (1905), Ildikó Enyedi (1955), and Zoltán Fábri (1917). After him are Charles Vidor (1900), Alexandre Trauner (1906), Andrew Marton (1904), George Pal (1908), Emeric Pressburger (1902), and Andre DeToth (1913).

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