FILM DIRECTOR

Michael Caton-Jones

1957 - Today

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Michael Caton-Jones (born Michael Jones; 15 October 1957) is a Scottish director and producer of film and television. His credits include the World War II film Memphis Belle (1990), the romantic comedy Doc Hollywood (1991), the biographical drama This Boy's Life (1993), the historical epic Rob Roy (1995), the action thriller The Jackal (1997) and the erotic thriller sequel Basic Instinct 2 (2006). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Caton-Jones has received more than 361,703 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Michael Caton-Jones is the 1,345th most popular film director (down from 1,238th in 2019), the 4,587th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,308th in 2019) and the 100th most popular British Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 360k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.78

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Michael Caton-Jones by language

Over the past year Michael Caton-Jones has had the most page views in the with 49,415 views, followed by Italian (7,817), and French (5,625). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Finnish (64.93%), Arabic (53.05%), and Egyptian Arabic (28.76%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Michael Caton-Jones ranks 1,345 out of 2,041. Before him are William Desmond Taylor, D. A. Pennebaker, Walter Lassally, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, Guillermo Navarro, and Howard Deutch. After him are Dennis Gansel, Scott Derrickson, Mark Sandrich, Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Lucrecia Martel, and Tommy Lee Wallace.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Michael Caton-Jones ranks 399. Before him are Aleksandr Petrov, Kevin Von Erich, Caterina Davinio, Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa, Ana Lilian de la Macorra, and Faye Grant. After him are Alex Jennings, Lindsay Hoyle, Stephen Morris, Phil Collen, Bill Laimbeer, and Mitsuko Horie.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Caton-Jones ranks 4,587 out of 8,785. Before him are John Rae (1813), Geoffrey Crossley (1921), Richard Thomas Lowe (1802), Sean Dyche (1971), Timothy West (1934), and Thomas Campbell (1777). After him are George Fenton (1950), Alex Jennings (1957), Gerald Scarfe (1936), Delia Derbyshire (1937), Brendan Coyle (1963), and Henry De la Beche (1796).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Michael Caton-Jones ranks 100. Before him are Tom Hooper (1972), Richard Eyre (1943), Peter Hall (1930), Steve McQueen (1969), Jonathan Lynn (1943), and Sam Taylor-Johnson (1967). After him are Mike Hodges (1932), A. Edward Sutherland (1895), Geoffrey Unsworth (1914), Basil Dearden (1911), Michael Winterbottom (1961), and Stuart Baird (1947).

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Filmography

The Jackal
Director
Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal proves an elusive target for the people charged with the task of bringing him down: a deputy FBI director, a Russian MVK Major, and a jailed IRA terrorist who can recognize him.
Nov 14o 19976.4 / 10
This Boy's Life
Director
When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polite man. Things go south when the man turns out to be abusive, endangering their lives. As the mother struggles to maintain hope in an impossible situation, the son has plans to escape.
Apr 9o 19937.1 / 10
Basic Instinct 2
Director
Novelist Catherine Tramell is once again in trouble with the law, and Scotland Yard appoints psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass to evaluate her. Though, like Detective Nick Curran before him, Glass is entranced by Tramell and lured into a seductive game.
Mar 29o 20065.064 / 10