FILM DIRECTOR

Menahem Golan

1929 - 2014

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Menahem Golan (Hebrew: מנחם גולן; May 31, 1929 – August 8, 2014, originally Menachem Globus) was an Israeli film producer, screenwriter, and director. He co-owned The Cannon Group with his cousin Yoram Globus. Cannon specialized in producing low-to-mid-budget American films, primarily genre films, during the 1980s after Golan and Globus had achieved significant filmmaking success in their native Israel during the 1970s.Golan produced films featuring actors such as Sean Connery, Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Charles Bronson, and for a period, was known as a producer of comic book-style films like Masters of the Universe, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Captain America, and his aborted attempt to bring Spider-Man to the silver screen. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Menahem Golan has received more than 572,038 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Menahem Golan is the 258th most popular film director (up from 319th in 2019), the 140th most popular biography from Israel (up from 141st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Israeli Film Director.

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  • 29

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  • 6.44

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  • 2.62

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Over the past year Menahem Golan has had the most page views in the with 67,568 views, followed by Hebrew (13,246), and French (11,710). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (139.23%), Greek (123.86%), and Indonesian (64.41%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Menahem Golan ranks 258 out of 2,041. Before him are Patrice Chéreau, Frank Darabont, Assi Dayan, Julien Duvivier, Peter Bogdanovich, and Richard Fleischer. After him are Henri Verneuil, Frank Lloyd, Robert Aldrich, John Frankenheimer, Hideaki Anno, and Joseph Losey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Menahem Golan ranks 110. Before him are Alasdair MacIntyre, Bob Denard, Georgi Markov, Vera Miles, André Previn, and Antonio Carbajal. After him are Carlos Lacoste, Bob Newhart, June Carter Cash, Kishore Kumar, John Polanyi, and Nureddin al-Atassi. Among people deceased in 2014, Menahem Golan ranks 75. Before him are Billy Milligan, Kim Song-ae, Vladimir Beara, Rubin Carter, Assi Dayan, and Richard Møller Nielsen. After him are Siegfried Lenz, Sabah, Malcolm Glazer, Karl Albrecht, Larry Scott, and Ralph H. Baer.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Menahem Golan ranks 140 out of 466. Before him are Saint Petronilla (50), Antiochus of Ascalon (-130), Arieh Warshel (1940), Simeon of Jerusalem (100), Wadie Haddad (1927), and Assi Dayan (1945). After him are Naji al-Ali (1937), A. B. Yehoshua (1936), Khalil al-Wazir (1935), Sextus Julius Africanus (160), Uzi Narkiss (1925), and Valerius Gratus (-50).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Israel

Among film directors born in Israel, Menahem Golan ranks 3. Before him are Amos Gitai (1950), and Assi Dayan (1945). After him are Ralph Bakshi (1938), Avi Arad (1948), Ari Folman (1962), Elia Suleiman (1960), Hany Abu-Assad (1961), Samuel Maoz (1962), Oren Peli (1970), and Etan Cohen (1974).

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Filmography

Cobra
Director
A tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far reaching plans.
May 22o 19866.1 / 10
Bloodsport
Director
U.S. soldier Frank Dux has come to Hong Kong to be accepted into the Kumite, a highly secret and extremely violent martial arts competition. While trying to gain access into the underground world of clandestine fighters, he also has to avoid military officers who consider him to be AWOL. After enduring a difficult training and beginning a romance with journalist Janice Kent, Frank is given the opportunity to fight. But can he survive?
Feb 26o 19887.019 / 10
Over the Top
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Sylvester Stallone stars as hard-luck big-rig trucker Lincoln Hawk and takes us under the glaring Las Vegas lights for all the boisterous action of the World Armwrestling Championship. Relying on wits and willpower, Hawk tries to rebuild his life by capturing the first-place prize money, and the love of the son he abandoned years earlier into the keeping of his rich, ruthless father-in-law.
Feb 13o 19876.385 / 10