FILM DIRECTOR

Michael Verhoeven

1938 - 2024

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Michael Alexander Verhoeven (13 July 1938 – 22 April 2024) was a German film director, screenwriter, film and television producer, and actor. He was also a qualified Doctor of Medicine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Verhoeven has received more than 242,322 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Michael Verhoeven is the 788th most popular film director (down from 753rd in 2019), the 3,873rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,512th in 2019) and the 40th most popular German Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 240k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Michael Verhoeven ranks 788 out of 2,041. Before him are Joseph Vilsmaier, George Pal, Emil Loteanu, Masoud Kimiai, Kevin Smith, and Revaz Chkheidze. After him are Sally Potter, Baltasar Kormákur, Martin Brest, Michel Audiard, Aleksei Balabanov, and Uwe Boll.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Michael Verhoeven ranks 302. Before him are Mahmoud El-Gohary, Torgny Lindgren, Scilla Gabel, Antonio Maria Vegliò, Marita Lindahl, and James W. Christy. After him are Teresa de Lauretis, Bruno Bozzetto, Mohammed Hamza Zubeidi, Jaki Liebezeit, Stephen Breyer, and Shi Pei Pu. Among people deceased in 2024, Michael Verhoeven ranks 155. Before him are John Bruton, Muhammed Faris, Paul Alexander, Yukio Kasaya, Damo Suzuki, and Jorge Griffa. After him are Albert S. Ruddy, Janusz Majewski, David Sanborn, Willie Mays, Paul Josef Cordes, and Olga Fikotová.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Michael Verhoeven ranks 3,873 out of 7,253. Before him are Oscar Hertwig (1849), August Heinrich Petermann (1822), Herluf Bidstrup (1912), Peer Steinbrück (1947), Dora Gerson (1899), and Günther Schwägermann (1915). After him are Tatjana Patitz (1966), Johann Baptist Allgaier (1763), Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg (1537), Uwe Boll (1965), Friedrich Kittler (1943), and Gerhard Friedrich Müller (1705).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Michael Verhoeven ranks 40. Before him are Arnold Fanck (1889), Konrad Wolf (1925), Gustav von Wangenheim (1895), Marc Forster (1969), Hans-Jürgen Syberberg (1935), and Joseph Vilsmaier (1939). After him are Uwe Boll (1965), Edgar Reitz (1932), Wolfgang Becker (1954), Percy Adlon (1935), Wolfgang Staudte (1906), and Ludwig Berger (1892).

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Filmography

Tatort
Director
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
6.134 / 10
The Nasty Girl
Director
When a young woman investigates her town's Nazi past, the community turns against her.
Feb 15o 19906.6 / 10
The White Rose
Director
During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell which they name the "White Rose" after a newsletter that is secretly distributed to the student body. At first small in numbers and fearful of discovery, the White Rose begins to gain massive support after a Nazi Gauleiter nearly incites a student riot after a provokative speech. At this point, the matter is taken over by the German Gestapo, who pledge to hunt down and destroy the members of the White Rose.
Sep 24o 19826.1 / 10