1924 - 2019
Robert Frank (November 9, 1924 – September 9, 2019) was a Swiss American photographer and documentary filmmaker. His most notable work, the 1958 book titled The Americans, earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and nuanced outsider's view of American society. Critic Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian in 2014, said The Americans "changed the nature of photography, what it could say and how it could say it. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Frank has received more than 889,293 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Robert Frank is the 342nd most popular film director (down from 332nd in 2019), the 168th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 166th in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Film Director.
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Among film directors, Robert Frank ranks 342 out of 1,581. Before him are Park Chan-wook, Edward Zwick, Makoto Shinkai, Samuel Fuller, Maya Deren, and Guy Hamilton. After him are Walerian Borowczyk, Mamoru Oshii, Bong Joon-ho, Russ Meyer, William A. Wellman, and Nick Castle.
1963 - Present
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 336
1952 - Present
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 337
1973 - Present
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 338
1912 - 1997
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 339
1917 - 1961
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 340
1922 - 2016
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 341
1924 - 2019
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 342
1923 - 2006
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 343
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 344
1969 - Present
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 345
1922 - 2004
HPI: 56.41
Rank: 346
1896 - 1975
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 347
1947 - Present
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 348
Among people born in 1924, Robert Frank ranks 99. Before him are Torsten Wiesel, Claude Sautet, Tengiz Abuladze, Katy Jurado, Roland Petit, and Luigi Musso. After him are Chet Atkins, Pat Hingle, Georg Ratzinger, Jacques Vergès, Machiko Kyō, and Neville Marriner. Among people deceased in 2019, Robert Frank ranks 97. Before him are Felice Gimondi, Peter Lindbergh, Girish Karnad, Köbi Kuhn, Paul Badura-Skoda, and Frank Lucas. After him are Machiko Kyō, Šaban Šaulić, György Konrád, Peter Mayhew, Billy Drago, and Anatoly Lukyanov.
1924 - Present
HPI: 57.06
Rank: 93
1924 - 2000
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 94
1924 - 1994
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 95
1924 - 2002
HPI: 56.76
Rank: 96
1924 - 2011
HPI: 56.72
Rank: 97
1924 - 1958
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 98
1924 - 2019
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 99
1924 - 2001
HPI: 56.41
Rank: 100
1924 - 2009
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 101
1924 - 2020
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 102
1924 - 2013
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 103
1924 - 2019
HPI: 56.33
Rank: 104
1924 - 2016
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 105
1942 - 2019
HPI: 57.38
Rank: 91
1944 - 2019
HPI: 57.36
Rank: 92
1938 - 2019
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 93
1943 - 2019
HPI: 57.06
Rank: 94
1927 - 2019
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 95
1930 - 2019
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 96
1924 - 2019
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 97
1924 - 2019
HPI: 56.33
Rank: 98
1951 - 2019
HPI: 56.23
Rank: 99
1933 - 2019
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 100
1944 - 2019
HPI: 56.19
Rank: 101
1945 - 2019
HPI: 56.18
Rank: 102
1930 - 2019
HPI: 56.03
Rank: 103
Among people born in Switzerland, Robert Frank ranks 168 out of 876. Before him are Charles Gleyre (1806), Charles Bally (1865), Ami Argand (1750), Albert von Kölliker (1817), Rudolf II, Count of Habsburg (1168), and Simonetta Sommaruga (1960). After him are Grock (1880), Hans Martin Sutermeister (1907), Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma (1886), Jonas Furrer (1805), Pietro Lombardo (1435), and Walter H. Schottky (1886).
1806 - 1874
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 162
1865 - 1947
HPI: 56.72
Rank: 163
1750 - 1803
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 164
1817 - 1905
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 165
1168 - 1232
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 166
1960 - Present
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 167
1924 - 2019
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 168
1880 - 1959
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 169
1907 - 1977
HPI: 56.43
Rank: 170
1886 - 1934
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 171
1805 - 1861
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 172
1435 - 1515
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 173
1886 - 1976
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 174
Among film directors born in Switzerland, Robert Frank ranks 1. After him are Marc Allégret (1900), Alain Tanner (1929), Daniel Schmid (1941), Henri Colpi (1921), Claude Goretta (1929), Eugeniusz Bodo (1899), Arthur Cohn (1927), Baran bo Odar (1978), and Dani Levy (1957).
1924 - 2019
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 1
1900 - 1973
HPI: 55.08
Rank: 2
1929 - 2022
HPI: 54.92
Rank: 3
1941 - 2006
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 4
1921 - 2006
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 5
1929 - 2019
HPI: 49.90
Rank: 6
1899 - 1943
HPI: 49.74
Rank: 7
1927 - Present
HPI: 47.64
Rank: 8
1978 - Present
HPI: 39.65
Rank: 9
1957 - Present
HPI: 39.24
Rank: 10