FILM DIRECTOR

Martin Brest

1951 - Today

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Martin Brest (born August 8, 1951) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. After his feature debut, Going in Style (1979), he directed the action comedies Beverly Hills Cop (1984) and Midnight Run (1988), which were critical and commercial hits. Brest then directed Scent of a Woman (1992), starring Al Pacino, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Brest has received more than 1,210,789 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Martin Brest is the 791st most popular film director (down from 586th in 2019), the 5,009th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,845th in 2019) and the 197th most popular American Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Martin Brest ranks 791 out of 2,041. Before him are Masoud Kimiai, Kevin Smith, Revaz Chkheidze, Michael Verhoeven, Sally Potter, and Baltasar Kormákur. After him are Michel Audiard, Aleksei Balabanov, Uwe Boll, Ivan Pyryev, Bruno Bozzetto, and Arturo Ripstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Martin Brest ranks 251. Before him are Shigefumi Mori, Dennis Frederiksen, Maithripala Sirisena, Jalil Zandi, Claudio Baglioni, and Walter Meeuws. After him are Jakup Krasniqi, Tonie Marshall, David Patrick Kelly, Lee Nak-yeon, Roscoe Tanner, and Michael Freedman.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Martin Brest ranks 5,009 out of 20,380. Before him are Joan Van Ark (1943), John C. Frémont (1813), Margaret Weis (1948), James Russo (1953), Michael C. Hall (1971), and Stephen A. Schwarzman (1947). After him are Len Bias (1963), Sylvia Beach (1887), William Smith (1933), Lenny Wilkens (1937), Bradley Whitford (1959), and Frank J. Tipler (1947).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Martin Brest ranks 197. Before him are Todd Phillips (1970), Joshua Logan (1908), Antoine Fuqua (1966), Ted Post (1918), Bryan Singer (1965), and Kevin Smith (1970). After him are George Sidney (1916), Sean S. Cunningham (1941), Andrew Davis (1946), Ernest B. Schoedsack (1893), Gordon Douglas (1907), and Hal Roach (1892).

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