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FILM DIRECTOR

Norman McLaren

1914 - 1987

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William Norman McLaren, LL. D. (11 April 1914 – 27 January 1987) was a Scottish Canadian animator, director and producer known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). He was a pioneer in a number of areas of animation and filmmaking, including hand-drawn animation, drawn-on-film animation, visual music, abstract film, pixilation and graphical sound. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Norman McLaren has received more than 337,535 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Norman McLaren is the 576th most popular film director (down from 517th in 2019), the 2,176th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,966th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular British Film Director.

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  • 340k

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  • 51.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Norman McLaren ranks 576 out of 1,581Before him are Jean-Daniel Cadinot, Ken Annakin, Thelma Schoonmaker, Sergei Solovyov, John Glen, and Carlo Lizzani. After him are Zoltán Fábri, Lewis Gilbert, Jean-Marc Vallée, Artavazd Peleshyan, Grigori Kozintsev, and Henry Koster.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Norman McLaren ranks 151Before him are Domènec Balmanya, Felice Borel, Dorival Caymmi, Yuri Levitan, Gino Colaussi, and Ken Annakin. After him are Poul Hartling, Henri Langlois, Jorge Bolet, Gyula Cseszneky, Albert Soboul, and Andrzej Panufnik. Among people deceased in 1987, Norman McLaren ranks 112Before him are Alessandro Blasetti, R. Budd Dwyer, Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean, Jackie Gleason, Adile Naşit, and Bernhard Grzimek. After him are Kishore Kumar, James Jesus Angleton, Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, Vicente Calderón, Sachchidananda Vatsyayan, and Bengt Strömgren.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Norman McLaren ranks 2,176 out of 7,765Before him are Ruth Belville (1854), Shane MacGowan (1957), Christine McVie (1943), Reginald Doherty (1872), William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford (1768), and Joseph Larmor (1857). After him are Lewis Gilbert (1920), Edward Cave (1691), John Ford (1586), Nassau William Senior (1790), Ian Khama (1953), and Joan of England, Queen of Scotland (1210).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Norman McLaren ranks 43Before him are John Badham (1939), Anthony Asquith (1902), Michael Powell (1905), Paul Greengrass (1955), Ken Annakin (1914), and John Glen (1932). After him are Lewis Gilbert (1920), George Albert Smith (1864), Hugh Hudson (1936), Matthew Vaughn (1971), Robert Stevenson (1905), and Steven Knight (1959).

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