FILM DIRECTOR

Néstor Almendros

1930 - 1992

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Néstor Almendros Cuyás, ASC (30 October 1930 – 4 March 1992) was a Spanish cinematographer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Néstor Almendros has received more than 279,758 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Néstor Almendros is the 517th most popular film director (down from 490th in 2019), the 873rd most popular biography from Spain (down from 812th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Spanish Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Néstor Almendros ranks 517 out of 2,041. Before him are Ted Kotcheff, Sam Wood, Clarence Brown, Fernando Solanas, Boris Barnet, and Mike Leigh. After him are James Wong, Luis García Berlanga, Claude Autant-Lara, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Peter Yates, and Seijun Suzuki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Néstor Almendros ranks 201. Before him are Pyotr Bolotnikov, Katherine Jackson, Walter Mischel, John Barth, Clifford Brown, and Tadao Kobayashi. After him are Ernst Fuchs, Georges Descrières, Jean Vincent, Károly Grósz, Gholamreza Takhti, and Stuart Lewis-Evans. Among people deceased in 1992, Néstor Almendros ranks 103. Before him are Tevfik Esenç, John G. Kemeny, Franco Cristaldi, Frederick William Franz, Lusine Zakaryan, and Seichō Matsumoto. After him are Aleksandar Tirnanić, Hammer DeRoburt, Michel Berger, Paul Henreid, Petra Kelly, and Franziska Donner.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Néstor Almendros ranks 873 out of 3,355. Before him are Paschal Baylón (1540), Ion Andoni Goikoetxea (1965), Infante Gonzalo of Spain (1914), Marisol (1948), Isabella of Castile, Duchess of York (1355), and Francisco Bru (1885). After him are Antonio María Rouco Varela (1936), Luis García Berlanga (1921), Ramón Menéndez Pidal (1869), Pedro Cieza de León (1520), Roberto Martínez (1973), and Xavier Cugat (1900).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Spain

Among film directors born in Spain, Néstor Almendros ranks 9. Before him are Carlos Saura (1932), Jesús Franco (1930), Víctor Erice (1940), Bigas Luna (1946), Juan Antonio Bardem (1922), and Vicente Aranda (1926). After him are Luis García Berlanga (1921), Segundo de Chomón (1871), Fernando Trueba (1955), Isabel Coixet (1960), Julio Medem (1958), and J. A. Bayona (1975).

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Filmography

Kramer vs. Kramer
Director
Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.
Dec 7th 19797.577 / 10
The Blue Lagoon
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Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island. Soon, however, the cook dies and the young boy and girl are left on their own. Days become years and Emmeline and Richard make a home for themselves surrounded by exotic creatures and nature's beauty. But will they ever see civilization again?
Jul 5th 19806.2 / 10
Days of Heaven
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In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.
Sep 13th 19787.5 / 10