FILM DIRECTOR

Péter Bacsó

1928 - 2009

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Péter Bacsó (6 January 1928 – 11 March 2009) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. After high school graduation Bacsó wanted to become an actor and later a theatre director, but ultimately decided to try filmmaking. His first job in a film was as an assistant in Géza Radványi's Valahol Európában (Somewhere in Europe) at the age of 19. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Péter Bacsó has received more than 25,293 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 16 in 2019). Péter Bacsó is the 777th most popular film director (up from 1,286th in 2019), the 133rd most popular biography from Slovakia (up from 198th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Slovak Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Péter Bacsó ranks 777 out of 2,041Before him are Laura Mulvey, Isabel Coixet, Boris Kaufman, Andrew V. McLaglen, Giuseppe Rotunno, and Antoine Fuqua. After him are Ted Post, Herbert Brenon, Mark Robson, Bryan Singer, Joseph Vilsmaier, and George Pal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Péter Bacsó ranks 315Before him are Mikio Sato, Péter Boross, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Akira Miyawaki, Jacques Dupont, and Peter Carsten. After him are Leonid Bronevoy, Bella Davidovich, Eugenio Monti, Pierre Schoendoerffer, Peter Shirayanagi, and Karl Josef Becker. Among people deceased in 2009, Péter Bacsó ranks 184Before him are Dom DeLuise, Tomislav Crnković, Marilyn French, Venetia Burney, Hans Klenk, and Riccardo Cassin. After him are Edward Woodward, Gene Barry, Henry Gibson, Willem Johan Kolff, Shi Pei Pu, and Charlie Mariano.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Péter Bacsó ranks 133 out of 418Before him are Roland Jacobi (1893), Igor Matovič (1973), Pavol Molnár (1936), Ladislav Pavlovič (1926), Miloslav Mečíř (1964), and János Csernoch (1852). After him are Hana Hegerová (1931), Ladislav Petráš (1946), Jan Brokoff (1652), Jaroslav Pollák (1947), Zoltán Halmay (1881), and László Hudec (1893).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Slovakia

Among film directors born in Slovakia, Péter Bacsó ranks 6Before him are Ivan Reitman (1946), Juraj Jakubisko (1938), Juraj Herz (1934), Géza von Radványi (1907), and Jaromil Jireš (1935). After him are Štefan Uher (1930).