FILM DIRECTOR

Richard C. Sarafian

1930 - 2013

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Richard Caspar Sarafian (April 28, 1930 – September 18, 2013) was an Armenian-American film director and actor. He compiled a versatile career that spanned over five decades as a director, actor, and writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard C. Sarafian has received more than 334,316 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Richard C. Sarafian is the 619th most popular film director (up from 770th in 2019), the 3,993rd most popular biography from United States (up from 4,954th in 2019) and the 148th most popular American Film Director.

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  • 330k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Richard C. Sarafian ranks 619 out of 2,041. Before him are Hal Ashby, Jim Sheridan, Jean Rollin, Georges Franju, Andrew Birkin, and Tran Anh Hung. After him are John Madden, Paul Greengrass, Arnold Fanck, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Sergei Gerasimov, and Peter Hyams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Richard C. Sarafian ranks 255. Before him are Ignatius Moses I Daoud, Julián Herranz Casado, Freimut Börngen, Robert Evans, Sergei Kovalev, and Dick Sargent. After him are Antonio Saura, Robert Prosky, Gianfranco Parolini, Philip Bosco, Stanley Myers, and David Huddleston. Among people deceased in 2013, Richard C. Sarafian ranks 193. Before him are Ray Dolby, Radu Vasile, Saye Zerbo, Tommy Morrison, Scott Carpenter, and Henrique Rosa. After him are Heinz Flohe, Yusef Lateef, Otto Muehl, Alain Mimoun, Halton Arp, and Martin Koeman.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard C. Sarafian ranks 3,993 out of 20,380. Before him are Scott Walker (1943), Arnold Rothstein (1882), Jeanne Tripplehorn (1963), Maureen Stapleton (1925), Nancy Spungen (1958), and Stewart Copeland (1952). After him are Dorothy Dandridge (1922), Dean Corll (1939), Renée Taylor (1933), Susannah Mushatt Jones (1899), Valerie Perrine (1943), and Keir Dullea (1936).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Richard C. Sarafian ranks 148. Before him are Jerome Robbins (1918), Robert Rodriguez (1968), Donald P. Bellisario (1935), Stuart Rosenberg (1927), Brad Bird (1957), and Hal Ashby (1929). After him are Peter Hyams (1943), Natacha Rambova (1897), Robert Mulligan (1925), James Mangold (1963), Larry Clark (1943), and John Cromwell (1886).

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