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FILM DIRECTOR

Nicolas Roeg

1928 - 2018

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Nicolas Jack Roeg (; 15 August 1928 – 23 November 2018) was an English film director and cinematographer, best known for directing Performance (1970), Walkabout (1971), Don't Look Now (1973), The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), Bad Timing (1980) and The Witches (1990). Making his directorial debut 23 years after his entry into the film business, Roeg quickly became known for an idiosyncratic visual and narrative style, characterised by the use of disjointed and disorienting editing. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicolas Roeg has received more than 1,464,574 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Nicolas Roeg is the 470th most popular film director (down from 454th in 2019), the 1,788th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,768th in 2019) and the 34th most popular British Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Nicolas Roeg ranks 470 out of 1,581Before him are André Téchiné, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Paul W. S. Anderson, Roland Joffé, Umberto Lenzi, and Jacques Deray. After him are John Lasseter, Paweł Pawlikowski, Peter Stein, Dadasaheb Phalke, Marcel L'Herbier, and Gérard Oury.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Nicolas Roeg ranks 183Before him are Laurence Harvey, Sid Watkins, Victor Stănculescu, Paul Elvstrøm, Veljko Bulajić, and Eddie Fisher. After him are Leyla Gencer, Alan Sillitoe, Bella Darvi, Jack Tramiel, Nora Nova, and Ernest Simoni. Among people deceased in 2018, Nicolas Roeg ranks 125Before him are Robert Morris, Avicii, Paul Andreu, Walter Mischel, Eduard Uspensky, and Joseph Joffo. After him are Dobri Dobrev, Yoshinobu Ishii, Luis García Meza, Rachid Taha, Irena Szewińska, and Đỗ Mười.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Nicolas Roeg ranks 1,788 out of 7,765Before him are Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878), Andrew Wakefield (1957), FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788), Luke Evans (1979), Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto (1751), and Arthur Rostron (1869). After him are James Boswell (1740), Oliver Lodge (1851), Bernard Williams (1929), Thomas Hicks (1876), Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831), and Lilian Harvey (1906).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Nicolas Roeg ranks 34Before him are Michael Anderson (1920), David Yates (1963), Mike Leigh (1943), J. Lee Thompson (1914), Paul W. S. Anderson (1965), and Roland Joffé (1945). After him are David Byrne (1952), Peter Yates (1929), John Badham (1939), Anthony Asquith (1902), Michael Powell (1905), and Paul Greengrass (1955).

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