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FILM DIRECTOR

Karel Zeman

1910 - 1989

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Karel Zeman (3 November 1910 – 5 April 1989) was a Czech film director, artist, production designer and animator, best known for directing fantasy films combining live-action footage with animation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karel Zeman has received more than 191,374 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Karel Zeman is the 251st most popular film director (up from 279th in 2019), the 163rd most popular biography from Czechia (up from 184th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Czech Film Director.

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  • 190k

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  • 58.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Karel Zeman ranks 251 out of 1,581Before him are Mauritz Stiller, David Hamilton, Gojko Mitić, Věra Chytilová, Martin Campbell, and Edward Dmytryk. After him are Edwin S. Porter, Hideaki Anno, Robert Wiene, Joe D'Amato, Márta Mészáros, and Gillo Pontecorvo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Karel Zeman ranks 63Before him are Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz, Pavel Batitsky, Sergey Gorshkov, Edda Mussolini, Said bin Taimur, and Francisco Varallo. After him are A. J. Ayer, Aladár Gerevich, Luise Rainer, Kim Yong-sik, Tancredo Neves, and Maurice Papon. Among people deceased in 1989, Karel Zeman ranks 62Before him are Valentin Glushko, Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz, Carlos Arias Navarro, Charles J. Pedersen, Luis Carlos Galán, and Rashid Behbudov. After him are A. J. Ayer, Barbara W. Tuchman, Minoru Genda, Franklin J. Schaffner, Leonardo Sciascia, and Werner Best.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Karel Zeman ranks 163 out of 973Before him are Viktor Ullmann (1898), Archduke Eugen of Austria (1863), Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria (1860), Věra Chytilová (1929), Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760), and Bedřich Hrozný (1879). After him are Vratislaus I, Duke of Bohemia (888), Josef Koudelka (1938), František Palacký (1798), Carl von Rokitansky (1804), Christoph Schönborn (1945), and Josef Čapek (1887).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Czechia

Among film directors born in Czechia, Karel Zeman ranks 6Before him are Miloš Forman (1932), Jiří Menzel (1938), Jan Švankmajer (1934), G. W. Pabst (1885), and Věra Chytilová (1929). After him are Jiří Trnka (1912), Karel Reisz (1926), Václav Vorlíček (1930), František Čáp (1913), Otakar Vávra (1911), and Ivan Passer (1933).

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