FILM DIRECTOR

Monte Hellman

1932 - 2021

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Monte Hellman (; born Monte Jay Himmelbaum; July 12, 1929 – April 20, 2021) was an American film director, producer, writer, and editor. Hellman began his career as an editor's apprentice at ABC TV, and made his directorial debut with the horror film Beast from Haunted Cave (1959), produced by Gene Corman, Roger Corman's brother. He would later gain critical recognition for the Westerns The Shooting and Ride in the Whirlwind (both 1966) starring Jack Nicholson, and the independent road movie Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) starring James Taylor and Dennis Wilson. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Monte Hellman has received more than 372,429 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Monte Hellman is the 1,110th most popular film director (down from 954th in 2019), the 7,197th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,273rd in 2019) and the 274th most popular American Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 370k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Monte Hellmen by language

Over the past year Monte Hellman has had the most page views in the with 44,447 views, followed by Italian (4,723), and French (4,013). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Finnish (226.58%), Basque (88.35%), and Spanish (27.04%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Monte Hellman ranks 1,110 out of 2,041. Before him are David Twohy, Jonas Åkerlund, Pavel Lungin, Peter Del Monte, Willis H. O'Brien, and Agustí Villaronga. After him are Edgar Wright, Caleb Deschanel, Vladimir Naumov, Ali Hatami, Şerif Gören, and Armand Gatti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Monte Hellman ranks 347. Before him are Els Borst, Jacques Roubaud, Bruce Glover, Angela Mortimer, Igor Kirillov, and Günter Sawitzki. After him are Elaine May, Ferenc Sipos, Pik Botha, Shankha Ghosh, Lewis Binford, and Nino Defilippis. Among people deceased in 2021, Monte Hellman ranks 415. Before him are Alex Cord, Captain Tom, Igor Kirillov, Sabine Weiss, Peter Del Monte, and Elmira Minita Gordon. After him are Harry Reid, Shankha Ghosh, Peter Lorimer, Vladimir Naumov, Lawrence Weiner, and Hryhorii Chapkis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Monte Hellman ranks 7,197 out of 20,380. Before him are Alfred G. Knudson (1922), Phoebe Cates (1963), Miles Teller (1987), Alison Arngrim (1962), Jenny McCarthy (1972), and Ken Carpenter (1913). After him are Florence La Badie (1888), Neal E. Miller (1909), Patricia Wettig (1951), Harry Reid (1939), Katharine Houghton (1945), and Frederick Seitz (1911).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Monte Hellman ranks 274. Before him are Lloyd Kaufman (1945), Gregory La Cava (1892), Alan Crosland (1894), David Twohy (1955), Peter Del Monte (1943), and Willis H. O'Brien (1886). After him are Caleb Deschanel (1944), Andrew Stanton (1965), James Foley (1953), James Algar (1912), Alan Taylor (1959), and Herschell Gordon Lewis (1926).

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Filmography

The Big Red One
Director
A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.
Jan 22o 19806.752 / 10
Two-Lane Blacktop
Director
A driver and a mechanic travel around the United States hopping from drag strip to drag strip in a 1955 Chevy Bel-Air coupe. They race for money, betting with their competitors. The pair gains a young and talkative female stowaway. Along the way they unintentionally attract a well-to-do drifter driving a new Pontiac GTO. This older man, looking for attention, antagonizes their efforts.
Jul 7o 19716.913 / 10
The Shooting
Director
Two miners agree to guide a mysterious woman, who has appeared in their camp from nowhere, to a nearby town; but soon, because of her erratic behavior, they begin to suspect that her true purpose is quite different.
Jun 2o 19666.394 / 10