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FILM DIRECTOR

Raoul Coutard

1924 - 2016

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Raoul Coutard (16 September 1924 – 8 November 2016) was a French cinematographer. He is best known for his connection with the French New Wave (Nouvelle Vague) period and particularly for his work with director Jean-Luc Godard, which includes Breathless (1960), A Woman Is a Woman (1961), Vivre sa vie (1962), Bande à part (1964), Alphaville, Pierrot le Fou (both 1965), and Weekend (1967). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raoul Coutard has received more than 122,822 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Raoul Coutard is the 663rd most popular film director (up from 693rd in 2019), the 3,296th most popular biography from France (down from 3,216th in 2019) and the 90th most popular French Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Raoul Coutard ranks 663 out of 1,581Before him are Bryan Singer, Dan O'Bannon, Riccardo Freda, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Franco Rossi, and Renato Castellani. After him are Jack Clayton, Ryan Murphy, Mario Camerini, Ivan Passer, Mario Salieri, and Luigi Zampa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Raoul Coutard ranks 209Before him are Girija Prasad Koirala, George Segal, Ramón Castro Ruz, Juan Carlos González, Edwin Ernest Salpeter, and Wiel Coerver. After him are Eduardo Paolozzi, Yasuzo Masumura, Patricia Kennedy Lawford, Rainer Barzel, Ed Koch, and Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber. Among people deceased in 2016, Raoul Coutard ranks 212Before him are Naná Vasconcelos, Faina Melnik, Ernst Neizvestny, Doris Roberts, Jadranka Stojaković, and Sixto Durán Ballén. After him are Leon Russell, Susannah Mushatt Jones, Akhtar Mansour, Jon Polito, Pete Burns, and Nina Ponomaryova.

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In France

Among people born in France, Raoul Coutard ranks 3,296 out of 6,011Before him are François de La Mothe Le Vayer (1588), Geoffrey I, Duke of Brittany (1000), Victor Schœlcher (1804), Jean Echenoz (1947), Robert Garnier (1534), and Pal Benko (1928). After him are Pierre-François Bouchard (1771), Louis Bourdaloue (1632), Éric Serra (1959), Bernard Giraudeau (1947), Claude Fleury (1640), and Louise Moillon (1610).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Raoul Coutard ranks 90Before him are Jean Eustache (1938), Jean-Paul Rappeneau (1932), Jean-Daniel Cadinot (1944), Claude Pinoteau (1925), Paul Grimault (1905), and Pierre Granier-Deferre (1927). After him are Michel Hazanavicius (1967), Claude Miller (1942), Jeannot Szwarc (1937), Henri Decoin (1890), Pierre Schoendoerffer (1928), and Maurice Tourneur (1876).

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