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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 76,287 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Ján Kadár is the 559th most popular film director (down from 553rd in 2019), the 293rd most popular biography from Hungary (down from 276th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Hungarian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Ján Kadár ranks 559 out of 1,581Before him are Juzo Itami, Joe Johnston, James Wong, František Čáp, John Milius, and Amos Gitai. After him are Roger Spottiswoode, King Hu, James Gunn, Paul Greengrass, Jaco Van Dormael, and Mika Kaurismäki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Ján Kadár ranks 138Before him are María Mercader, Ángel Labruna, Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, Anatoly Tarasov, Abdul Haris Nasution, and Elmore James. After him are Cornell Capa, Hermann Zapf, Georgios Rallis, Sandro Puppo, Mehdi Huseynzade, and Efrem Zimbalist Jr.. Among people deceased in 1979, Ján Kadár ranks 106Before him are Zeppo Marx, Helmut Hasse, José Della Torre, Ita Rina, Fulton J. Sheen, and Ferenc Nagy. After him are Jean Rhys, Johan Borgen, Zhang Guotao, Preguinho, Katharine Burr Blodgett, and Aleksei Kapler.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Ján Kadár ranks 293 out of 866Before him are Péter Palotás (1929), Ildikó Enyedi (1955), Isidor Gunsberg (1854), Géza Toldi (1909), Ferenc Nagy (1903), and Archduchess Maria Dorothea of Austria (1867). After him are Mihály Vörösmarty (1800), Cornell Capa (1918), Gyula Kellner (1871), László Benedek (1905), György Orth (1901), and Peter Lax (1926).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Hungary

Among film directors born in Hungary, Ján Kadár ranks 9Before him are Miklós Jancsó (1921), Márta Mészáros (1931), Béla Tarr (1955), Adolph Zukor (1873), Ladislao Vajda (1906), and Ildikó Enyedi (1955). After him are László Benedek (1905), Zoltán Fábri (1917), Charles Vidor (1900), Alexandre Trauner (1906), George Pal (1908), and Andrew Marton (1904).

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