FILM DIRECTOR

Robert Aldrich

1918 - 1983

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Robert Burgess Aldrich (August 9, 1918 – December 5, 1983) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. An iconoclastic and maverick auteur working in many genres during the Golden Age of Hollywood, he directed mainly films noir, war movies, westerns and dark melodramas with Gothic overtones. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Aldrich has received more than 1,818,064 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Robert Aldrich is the 261st most popular film director (down from 175th in 2019), the 1,712th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,117th in 2019) and the 67th most popular American Film Director.

Robert Aldrich is most famous for directing the film "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" which starred Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Robert Aldrich ranks 261 out of 2,041. Before him are Julien Duvivier, Peter Bogdanovich, Richard Fleischer, Menahem Golan, Henri Verneuil, and Frank Lloyd. After him are John Frankenheimer, Hideaki Anno, Joseph Losey, David Hamilton, Robert Siodmak, and Damiano Damiani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Robert Aldrich ranks 69. Before him are Henryk Szeryng, W. Eugene Smith, Gabriel Axel, Kakuei Tanaka, Edwin G. Krebs, and Takashi Kasahara. After him are John Forsythe, João Figueiredo, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Edward A. Murphy Jr., Spiro Agnew, and B. K. S. Iyengar. Among people deceased in 1983, Robert Aldrich ranks 47. Before him are Pridi Banomyong, Joan Robinson, Dolores del Río, Vladimir Gelfand, Georges Bidault, and Germaine Tailleferre. After him are Nicolaus von Below, Walther Nehring, Kurt Tank, Karen Carpenter, Norma Shearer, and Marianne Brandt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Aldrich ranks 1,712 out of 20,380. Before him are Cardi B (1992), Abigail Adams (1744), Lisa Ann (1972), Sonny Bono (1935), Michael Biehn (1956), and Chuck Yeager (1923). After him are Alfred Stieglitz (1864), Barnett Newman (1905), Patricia Neal (1926), John Frankenheimer (1930), Fran Drescher (1957), and Robert Bloch (1917).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Robert Aldrich ranks 67. Before him are Edwin S. Porter (1870), Michael Moore (1954), James Ivory (1928), John Sturges (1910), Peter Bogdanovich (1939), and Richard Fleischer (1916). After him are John Frankenheimer (1930), Joseph Losey (1909), Robert J. Flaherty (1884), Zack Snyder (1966), Ub Iwerks (1901), and Cecil B. DeMille (1881).

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