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FILM DIRECTOR

Oskar Fischinger

1900 - 1967

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Oskar Wilhelm Fischinger (June 22, 1900 – January 31, 1967) was a German-American abstract animator, filmmaker, and painter, notable for creating abstract musical animation many decades before the appearance of computer graphics and music videos. He created special effects for Fritz Lang's 1929 Woman in the Moon, one of the first sci-fi rocket films, and influenced Disney's Fantasia. He made over 50 short films and painted around 800 canvases, many of which are in museums, galleries, and collections worldwide. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oskar Fischinger has received more than 840,088 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Oskar Fischinger is the 457th most popular film director (down from 297th in 2019), the 2,365th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,604th in 2019) and the 21st most popular German Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Oskar Fischinger ranks 457 out of 1,581. Before him are Alf Sjöberg, Aaron Russo, Víctor Erice, Clarence Brown, Michel Gondry, and Ariane Mnouchkine. After him are Claude Autant-Lara, Susanne Bier, Louis Feuillade, Nadine Trintignant, Veljko Bulajić, and Fernando Solanas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Oskar Fischinger ranks 113. Before him are Marc Allégret, James Hilton, Fritz London, René Crevel, Xavier Cugat, and Evald Aav. After him are Ibrahim Abboud, Lidia Ruslanova, Victor Young, Bluma Zeigarnik, Catherine Hessling, and Luigi Longo. Among people deceased in 1967, Oskar Fischinger ranks 100. Before him are Henry Morgenthau Jr., João Guimarães Rosa, Mir Osman Ali Khan, Franz Waxman, Pierre Jeanneret, and Juliusz Rómmel. After him are George Lincoln Rockwell, Joseph Cardijn, Gregory Goodwin Pincus, Isaac Deutscher, Ernst Niekisch, and Richard Ruoff.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Oskar Fischinger ranks 2,365 out of 6,142. Before him are Wieland Wagner (1917), Christoph I, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1453), Konstantin Hierl (1875), Johann Kirnberger (1721), Peter Högl (1897), and Philipp Mainländer (1841). After him are Günter Wallraff (1942), Wilhelm Filchner (1877), Otto von Knobelsdorff (1886), Franz Abt (1819), Dorothea Erxleben (1715), and Walther Meissner (1882).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Oskar Fischinger ranks 21. Before him are Margarethe von Trotta (1942), Mike Nichols (1931), Veit Harlan (1899), Lotte Reiniger (1899), Gustaf Gründgens (1899), and Wolfgang Reitherman (1909). After him are Peter Stein (1937), Alexander Kluge (1932), Walter Ruttmann (1887), Walter Frentz (1907), Tom Tykwer (1965), and Henry Koster (1905).

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Filmography

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