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FILM DIRECTOR

Richard Rush

1929 - 2021

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Richard Rush (April 15, 1929 – April 8, 2021) was an American film director, scriptwriter, and producer. He is known for directing The Stunt Man, for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director. His film Color of Night won a Golden Raspberry Award as the worst film of 1994, but Maxim magazine also singled the film out as having the best sex scene in film history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Rush has received more than 236,988 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Richard Rush is the 1,124th most popular film director (up from 1,161st in 2019), the 7,412th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,249th in 2019) and the 296th most popular American Film Director.

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  • 240k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Richard Rush ranks 1,124 out of 1,581. Before him are Alan Ball, Luis Alcoriza, Liviu Ciulei, Barbara Hammer, John Musker, and Peter Berg. After him are Rodrigo García, Peter Fleischmann, Genndy Tartakovsky, Justin Lin, José Luis Garci, and Stan Brakhage.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Richard Rush ranks 379. Before him are Mario Francesco Pompedda, Bert Stern, Yvette Williams, Pat Crawford Brown, J. B. Lenoir, and Hal Blaine. After him are Sergio Mantovani, Yuri Artsutanov, Keijo Liinamaa, Arturo Fernández Rodríguez, James McDivitt, and Yordan Radichkov. Among people deceased in 2021, Richard Rush ranks 500. Before him are Mona Malm, Helen Murray Free, Peter Mark Richman, Naohiro Ikeda, Tony Esposito, and Bernd Nickel. After him are Evgeny Sveshnikov, Peter Fleischmann, Vladimir Kiselyov, David Amess, C. George Boeree, and Yoo Sang-chul.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Rush ranks 7,412 out of 18,182. Before him are Dorothy Hansine Andersen (1901), Terry Bradshaw (1948), Jimmy Hart (1943), ASAP Rocky (1988), Courtney Thorne-Smith (1967), and John Logan (1961). After him are Larry Lieber (1931), Wally Funk (1939), Albert Salmi (1928), Robert Ripley (1890), Michael Franks (1944), and Harold D. Babcock (1882).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Richard Rush ranks 296. Before him are Julius J. Epstein (1909), Pete Docter (1968), Alan Ball (1957), Barbara Hammer (1939), John Musker (1953), and Peter Berg (1962). After him are Stan Brakhage (1933), Alan Taylor (1959), David Ayer (1968), Jack Bender (1949), Tony Gilroy (1956), and J. Searle Dawley (1877).

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Filmography

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