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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, also called Stairway to Heaven), 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 936,638 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Michael Powell is the 529th most popular film director (down from 459th in 2019), the 2,044th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,780th in 2019) and the 39th most popular British Film Director.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.77

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Michael Powell ranks 529 out of 1,581. Before him are Frederick Wiseman, André Hunebelle, Gustav Ucicky, Richard Boleslawski, Pierre Woodman, and Georges Franju. After him are Natacha Rambova, Just Jaeckin, Robert Enrico, Ralph Bakshi, Alessandro Blasetti, and Mikhail Romm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Michael Powell ranks 128. Before him are Bruno Rossi, Aldo Fabrizi, Eduard Tubin, Robert Penn Warren, Sven Rydell, and Louis Rosier. After him are Robert Donat, Mohammad Hidayatullah, Hans Freudenthal, Mildred Natwick, Harold Arlen, and Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński. Among people deceased in 1990, Michael Powell ranks 108. Before him are Gordon Bunshaft, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Aldo Fabrizi, Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia, Mariano Rumor, and Edmund Conen. After him are Alan Perlis, Hayedeh, Venedikt Yerofeyev, Matvey Blanter, Andrei Kirilenko, and Hans Freudenthal.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Powell ranks 2,044 out of 7,765. Before him are Liam Payne (1993), John Maynard Smith (1920), Cecil Beaton (1904), Jonny Lee Miller (1972), John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall (1316), and F. H. Bradley (1846). After him are Gordon Milne (1937), Michael Dummett (1925), James Glaisher (1809), Paul Nurse (1949), William Cullen (1710), and W. Montgomery Watt (1909).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Michael Powell ranks 39. Before him are Roland Joffé (1945), Nicolas Roeg (1928), David Byrne (1952), Peter Yates (1929), John Badham (1939), and Anthony Asquith (1902). After him are Paul Greengrass (1955), Ken Annakin (1914), John Glen (1932), Norman McLaren (1914), Lewis Gilbert (1920), and George Albert Smith (1864).

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Filmography

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