FILM DIRECTOR

Richard Marquand

1937 - 1987

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Richard Alfred Marquand (22 September 1937 – 4 September 1987) was a Welsh film and television director active in both US and UK film productions, best known for directing the 1983 space opera Return of the Jedi, the final film in the original Star Wars trilogy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Marquand has received more than 838,401 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Richard Marquand is the 698th most popular film director (up from 761st in 2019), the 2,466th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,683rd in 2019) and the 52nd most popular British Film Director.

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  • 840k

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  • 51.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Richard Marquand ranks 698 out of 2,041. Before him are Bruno Mattei, Timur Bekmambetov, Fred Niblo, Riccardo Freda, Sergei Bodrov, and Walter Salles. After him are Dorothy Arzner, Artavazd Peleshyan, Ruben Östlund, Mario Camerini, Tsai Ming-liang, and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Richard Marquand ranks 251. Before him are George Zweig, Hildegard Behrens, Johnny Dorelli, Dyan Cannon, Vlatko Marković, and Yukio Endo. After him are Hiroshi Ninomiya, Jaime Lerner, Rupiah Banda, Renato Longo, Lorraine Gary, and John Phillip Law. Among people deceased in 1987, Richard Marquand ranks 126. Before him are Ivo Lapenna, Vladimir Basov, Petro Grigorenko, Jackie Gleason, Rashid Karami, and M. G. Ramachandran. After him are Victoria Kent, Gilberto Freyre, Charles Malik, Arne Brustad, Gustav Knuth, and James Tiptree Jr..

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Marquand ranks 2,466 out of 8,785. Before him are Peter Sutcliffe (1946), Roy Harrod (1900), Peter Frampton (1950), George Arnott Walker-Arnott (1799), Benedict Biscop (628), and Sydney Chapman (1888). After him are Robert Kerr (1755), David Bailey (1938), Paul Smith (1946), Geoff Bent (1932), John Alcock (1892), and Mary Ann Bevan (1874).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Richard Marquand ranks 52. Before him are John Glen (1932), Andrew Birkin (1945), John Madden (1949), Paul Greengrass (1955), Robert Stevenson (1905), and Terence Davies (1945). After him are J. Stuart Blackton (1875), James Whale (1889), Stephen Daldry (1960), Terence Fisher (1904), Laura Mulvey (1941), and Andrew V. McLaglen (1920).

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