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FILM DIRECTOR

Preston Sturges

1898 - 1959

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Preston Sturges (; born Edmund Preston Biden; August 29, 1898 – August 6, 1959) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director. He is credited as being the first screenwriter to find success as a director. Prior to Sturges, other Hollywood directors (such as Charlie Chaplin, D. W. Griffith and Frank Capra) had directed films from their own scripts; however, Sturges is often regarded as the first Hollywood figure to establish success as a screenwriter and then move into directing his own scripts. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Preston Sturges has received more than 759,123 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Preston Sturges is the 939th most popular film director (down from 876th in 2019), the 6,215th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,774th in 2019) and the 234th most popular American Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Preston Sturges ranks 939 out of 1,581. Before him are Helmut Käutner, Joe May, Andre DeToth, Vittorio De Seta, Yevgeni Bauer, and Shawn Levy. After him are Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Kote Marjanishvili, Stanislav Rostotsky, Luise Fleck, Gleb Panfilov, and Urban Gad.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Preston Sturges ranks 184. Before him are Norman Vincent Peale, Lily Pons, Rosa Chacel, William Astbury, Blind Willie McTell, and Zhu Ziqing. After him are Leonard Howell, Riichi Yokomitsu, Kay Sage, M. Ageyev, Ferreira de Castro, and Harry Patch. Among people deceased in 1959, Preston Sturges ranks 140. Before him are Jean Grémillon, Hans Henny Jahnn, Felix Jacoby, Vitaly Bianki, Sax Rohmer, and Blind Willie McTell. After him are Pierre Frieden, Lipót Fejér, Carl Switzer, Kay Kendall, Stepan Erzia, and Balthasar van der Pol.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Preston Sturges ranks 6,215 out of 18,182. Before him are Scott Fahlman (1948), Mary Travers (1936), Frank Lubin (1910), Silas Weir Mitchell (1969), Norman Bel Geddes (1893), and Chico Hamilton (1921). After him are Joe Rogan (1967), Dan Duryea (1907), Brian Doyle-Murray (1945), Lucas Black (1982), Pat Smear (1959), and James Dashner (1972).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Preston Sturges ranks 234. Before him are Cameron Crowe (1957), Gregg Toland (1904), Randal Kleiser (1946), James Foley (1953), Doug Liman (1965), and Joseph Sargent (1925). After him are Jon Turteltaub (1963), Harry Beaumont (1888), Ben Sharpsteen (1895), Stephen Sommers (1962), Caleb Deschanel (1944), and Stephen Gyllenhaal (1949).

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Filmography

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