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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 1,720,496 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Aldrich is the 175th most popular film director (down from 170th in 2019), the 1,117th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,108th in 2019) and the 47th 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.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Robert Aldrich ranks 175 out of 1,581. Before him are Kathryn Bigelow, Bille August, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jesús Franco, Nikita Mikhalkov, and Claude Lanzmann. After him are Peter Weir, Don Siegel, G. W. Pabst, Guy Ritchie, Dino Risi, and Danny Boyle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Robert Aldrich ranks 46. Before him are Lila Kedrova, Günther Rall, Jens Christian Skou, Ahmed Deedat, Patricio Aylwin, and Yasuhiro Nakasone. After him are Sam Walton, Hans Scholl, Paul D. Boyer, Edward A. Murphy Jr., Julian Schwinger, and Oscar Luigi Scalfaro. Among people deceased in 1983, Robert Aldrich ranks 30. Before him are Anna Seghers, George Balanchine, Aleksandar Ranković, Muddy Waters, Haldan Keffer Hartline, and Ulf von Euler. After him are Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, Prince Charles, Count of Flanders, Klaus Nomi, Maurice Ronet, Luis Monti, and Mercè Rodoreda.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Aldrich ranks 1,117 out of 18,182. Before him are Bob Kane (1915), Kyle MacLachlan (1959), Jonathan Banks (1947), Vint Cerf (1943), Jill Biden (1951), and Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840). After him are David Hasselhoff (1952), David Bohm (1992), Eleanor H. Porter (1868), Jordan Belfort (1962), Mr. T (1952), and Jeff Koons (1955).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Robert Aldrich ranks 47. Before him are Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909), Ed Wood (1924), Robert Wise (1914), William Friedkin (1935), Jonathan Demme (1944), and Kathryn Bigelow (1951). After him are Don Siegel (1912), James Ivory (1928), Vincente Minnelli (1903), Stanley Kramer (1913), Nicholas Ray (1911), and Michael Moore (1954).

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Filmography

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