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FILM DIRECTOR

Marcel L'Herbier

1888 - 1979

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Marcel L'Herbier (French: [lɛʁbje]; 23 April 1888 – 26 November 1979) was a French filmmaker who achieved prominence as an avant-garde theorist and imaginative practitioner with a series of silent films in the 1920s. His career as a director continued until the 1950s and he made more than 40 feature films in total. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked on cultural programmes for French television. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marcel L'Herbier has received more than 87,618 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Marcel L'Herbier is the 475th most popular film director (up from 487th in 2019), the 2,583rd most popular biography from France (down from 2,568th in 2019) and the 71st most popular French Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Marcel L'Herbier ranks 475 out of 1,581Before him are Jacques Deray, Nicolas Roeg, John Lasseter, Paweł Pawlikowski, Peter Stein, and Dadasaheb Phalke. After him are Gérard Oury, John Hughes, Alexander Kluge, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, John Waters, and Patrice Leconte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Marcel L'Herbier ranks 100Before him are Domenico Tardini, Paul Ramadier, Roberto Assagioli, Francesco Baracca, S. S. Van Dine, and Harukichi Hyakutake. After him are Carl Hilpert, Lead Belly, Archduchess Isabella of Austria, Hans Graf von Sponeck, Harilal Gandhi, and José Félix Estigarribia. Among people deceased in 1979, Marcel L'Herbier ranks 87Before him are Carlo Abarth, Ahmad Zahir, Dolores Costello, Victoria Ocampo, Wilfred Bion, and Waldemar de Brito. After him are James J. Gibson, Catherine Hessling, Santos Urdinarán, Léonide Massine, Immanuel Velikovsky, and August Heissmeyer.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marcel L'Herbier ranks 2,583 out of 6,011Before him are Albert Robida (1848), Louison Bobet (1925), Jean Ferrat (1930), Pierre Clastres (1934), Roussel de Bailleul (1100), and Michel Sardou (1947). After him are Princess Anne Charlotte of Lorraine (1714), Gérard Oury (1919), Maurice René Fréchet (1878), Odo II, Count of Blois (983), Marie Dubois (1937), and Émile Littré (1801).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Marcel L'Herbier ranks 71Before him are Ariane Mnouchkine (1939), Claude Autant-Lara (1901), Louis Feuillade (1873), Nadine Trintignant (1934), André Téchiné (1943), and Jacques Deray (1929). After him are Gérard Oury (1919), Patrice Leconte (1947), Aleksandar Petrović (1929), Yves Allégret (1907), Olivier Assayas (1955), and Alain Corneau (1943).

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