FILM DIRECTOR

Michael Powell

1905 - 1990

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Michael Latham Powell (30 September 1905 – 19 February 1990) was an English filmmaker, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger. Through their production company The Archers, they together wrote, produced and directed a series of classic British films, notably The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Canterbury Tale (1944), I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), A Matter of Life and Death (1946, Stairway to Heaven in the U.S.), Black Narcissus (1947), The Red Shoes (1948) and The Tales of Hoffmann (1951). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Powell has received more than 1,077,547 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Michael Powell is the 584th most popular film director (down from 528th in 2019), the 2,178th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,039th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular British Film Director.

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  • 31

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  • 4.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Michael Powell ranks 584 out of 2,041. Before him are Budd Boetticher, Henri Colpi, Carlo Lizzani, Ján Kadár, Juzo Itami, and Jaco Van Dormael. After him are Bernd Eichinger, Ferzan Özpetek, Fatih Akin, Asghar Farhadi, Norman Taurog, and Norman McLaren.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Michael Powell ranks 149. Before him are Zdeněk Burian, Manuel Ferreira, Tore Keller, Jan Gies, Dmitri Shepilov, and Robert Penn Warren. After him are Nise da Silveira, Georges Schehadé, Theodor Oberländer, Erich Neumann, Aldo Fabrizi, and Paul Ariste. Among people deceased in 1990, Michael Powell ranks 121. Before him are Anne Revere, Grethe Ingmann, John Hansen, Venedikt Yerofeyev, Dodie Smith, and Feng Youlan. After him are Zhang Qun, Aldo Fabrizi, Paul Ariste, Otto Ambros, Kelly Johnson, and Pierre Musy.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Powell ranks 2,178 out of 8,785. Before him are E. H. Shepard (1879), Tom Holland (1996), Ronald Colman (1891), Henry Percy (1364), Patricia Bredin (1935), and Richard Baxter (1615). After him are Jerry Springer (1944), Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1884), Eric Temple Bell (1883), Michael Adams (1971), Gerald of Wales (1146), and Wilfred Owen (1893).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Michael Powell ranks 43. Before him are Hugh Hudson (1936), George Albert Smith (1864), David Byrne (1952), Chris Menges (1940), Anthony Asquith (1902), and Lewis Gilbert (1920). After him are Norman McLaren (1914), Nicolas Roeg (1928), John Glen (1932), Andrew Birkin (1945), John Madden (1949), and Paul Greengrass (1955).

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