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FILM DIRECTOR

Maurice Tourneur

1876 - 1961

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Maurice Félix Thomas (French pronunciation: [mɔʁis feliks tɔmɑ]; 2 February 1876 – 4 August 1961), known as Maurice Tourneur (pronounced [tuʁnœʁ]), was a French film director and screenwriter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maurice Tourneur has received more than 93,292 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Maurice Tourneur is the 709th most popular film director (down from 669th in 2019), the 3,406th most popular biography from France (down from 3,155th in 2019) and the 96th most popular French Film Director.

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  • 50.22

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Maurice Tourneur ranks 709 out of 1,581Before him are Timur Bekmambetov, Tsai Ming-liang, Henri Decoin, Pierre Schoendoerffer, Jan Němec, and Richard Linklater. After him are William Cameron Menzies, Raoul Peck, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Benjamin Christensen, Matt Reeves, and Baz Luhrmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Maurice Tourneur ranks 106Before him are Pingali Venkayya, Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth, Heinrich Tessenow, Sibilla Aleramo, Friedrich Traun, and Leopold von Wiese. After him are Léon-Paul Fargue, Sverre Hassel, Bart van der Leck, Rosalia Zemlyachka, Aaron Aaronsohn, and Hrachia Acharian. Among people deceased in 1961, Maurice Tourneur ranks 93Before him are Kjeld Abell, Yaşar Doğu, Max Weber, Morris Travers, Hari Singh, and Belinda Lee. After him are Platt Adams, Giulio Cabianca, Alexander Goldenweiser, Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, and Beppo Levi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Maurice Tourneur ranks 3,406 out of 6,011Before him are Jean Stablinski (1932), Jean Effel (1908), Joseph Bienaimé Caventou (1795), Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven (1896), Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544), and Serge Lang (1927). After him are Manuel Amoros (1962), Hippolyte Carnot (1801), Hugues Aufray (1929), Bonaventure des Périers (1510), Emmanuel Todd (1951), and André Gedalge (1856).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Maurice Tourneur ranks 96Before him are Raoul Coutard (1924), Michel Hazanavicius (1967), Claude Miller (1942), Jeannot Szwarc (1937), Henri Decoin (1890), and Pierre Schoendoerffer (1928). After him are Michel Audiard (1920), Jean-Pierre Mocky (1933), Jean Rollin (1938), Michel Deville (1931), Jean-Pierre Ponnelle (1932), and Bruno Dumont (1958).

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