FILM DIRECTOR

Peter Hyams

1943 - Today

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Peter Hyams (born July 26, 1943) is an American film director, screenwriter and cinematographer known for directing the 1977 conspiracy thriller film Capricorn One (which he also wrote), the 1981 science fiction-thriller Outland, the 1984 science fiction film 2010: The Year We Make Contact (a sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey), the 1986 action/comedy Running Scared, the comic book adaptation Timecop, the action film Sudden Death (both starring Jean-Claude Van Damme), and the horror films The Relic and End of Days. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Hyams has received more than 823,815 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Peter Hyams is the 625th most popular film director (down from 545th in 2019), the 4,040th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,641st in 2019) and the 149th most popular American Film Director.

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  • 820k

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  • 52.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Peter Hyams ranks 625 out of 2,041. Before him are Richard C. Sarafian, John Madden, Paul Greengrass, Arnold Fanck, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, and Sergei Gerasimov. After him are Yuri Ilyenko, Alberto Cavalcanti, Natacha Rambova, Robert Mulligan, Roger Spottiswoode, and Giovanni Pastrone.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Peter Hyams ranks 289. Before him are Ignacio Ramonet, Scott Walker, Valerie Perrine, Frederick Chiluba, Penny Marshall, and Sylvester McCoy. After him are Larry Clark, Akinori Nakayama, Stanislav Galić, Marcos Valle, Tadao Onishi, and Teun A. van Dijk.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Peter Hyams ranks 4,040 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert David Hall (1947), Vince Vaughn (1970), Gary Kildall (1942), Kate Hudson (1979), Dutch Schultz (1902), and Richard Hartshorne (1899). After him are Todd Rundgren (1948), Sumner Paine (1868), Mike Connors (1925), William Katt (1951), Big Sean (1988), and Lana Wood (1946).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Peter Hyams ranks 149. Before him are Robert Rodriguez (1968), Donald P. Bellisario (1935), Stuart Rosenberg (1927), Brad Bird (1957), Hal Ashby (1929), and Richard C. Sarafian (1930). After him are Natacha Rambova (1897), Robert Mulligan (1925), James Mangold (1963), Larry Clark (1943), John Cromwell (1886), and David Zucker (1947).

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