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FILM DIRECTOR

Robert Frank

1924 - 2019

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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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  • 890k

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  • 56.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Robert Frank ranks 342 out of 1,581Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Robert Frank ranks 99Before 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 97Before 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.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Robert Frank ranks 168 out of 876Before 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).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Switzerland

Among film directors born in Switzerland, Robert Frank ranks 1After 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).

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