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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 783,664 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Marquand is the 763rd most popular film director (down from 638th in 2019), the 2,690th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,352nd in 2019) and the 60th most popular British Film Director.

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  • 49.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Richard Marquand ranks 763 out of 1,581. Before him are Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Harald Reinl, Andrew Davis, Bruno Bozzetto, Andrew V. McLaglen, and Sergio Martino. After him are Luis Trenker, Ulrich Seidl, Roman Karmen, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Stephen Hopkins, and Bruno Dumont.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Richard Marquand ranks 251. Before him are Jiří Dienstbier, Seymour Hersh, Carlo Mazzone, Irina Solovyova, Harry Wu, and Bobby Driscoll. After him are Givi Chokheli, Ken Ogata, Gary Hocking, Ludvík Daněk, Ada Rogovtseva, and Loretta Swit. Among people deceased in 1987, Richard Marquand ranks 138. Before him are Ivo Lapenna, Chögyam Trungpa, Gustav Knuth, Bronisława Wajs, Viktor Nekrasov, and M. G. Ramachandran. After him are Gioacchino Colombo, Arne Borg, Madeleine Carroll, Kristjan Palusalu, Woody Herman, and Conny Plank.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Marquand ranks 2,690 out of 7,765. Before him are Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (1907), Joely Richardson (1965), Andrew V. McLaglen (1920), George Dawe (1781), Georgette Heyer (1902), and Joseph Grimaldi (1778). After him are John Keegan (1934), Edward John Eyre (1815), Martin Barre (1946), Freddie Jones (1927), E. A. Wallis Budge (1857), and Elizabeth Fry (1780).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Richard Marquand ranks 60. Before him are John Alcott (1930), Ronald Neame (1911), Jack Clayton (1921), Stephen Daldry (1960), Sally Potter (1949), and Andrew V. McLaglen (1920). After him are Edmund Goulding (1891), Edgar Wright (1974), Jack Cardiff (1914), Mick Jackson (1943), Gerry Anderson (1929), and Michael Winner (1935).

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Filmography

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