FILM DIRECTOR

Roger Vadim

1928 - 2000

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Roger Vadim Plemiannikov (French: [ʁɔʒe vadim]; 26 January 1928 – 11 February 2000) was a French screenwriter, film director and producer, as well as an author, artist and occasional actor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roger Vadim has received more than 3,074,225 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Roger Vadim is the 32nd most popular film director (up from 55th in 2019), the 290th most popular biography from France (up from 462nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Film Director.

Roger Vadim is most famous for his work as a film director. He is also known for his relationship with Brigitte Bardot.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Roger Vadim ranks 32 out of 2,041. Before him are Georges Méliès, Michelangelo Antonioni, George Lucas, Miloš Forman, Konstantin Stanislavski, and Fritz Lang. After him are Quentin Tarantino, Andrzej Wajda, Tinto Brass, Tim Burton, Ken Loach, and John Ford.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Roger Vadim ranks 14. Before him are Noam Chomsky, Agnès Varda, Eduard Shevardnadze, Serge Gainsbourg, James Watson, and Chinghiz Aitmatov. After him are Osamu Tezuka, Philip K. Dick, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Rinus Michels, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Didi. Among people deceased in 2000, Roger Vadim ranks 5. Before him are Władysław Szpilman, Hedy Lamarr, Ingrid of Sweden, and Hafez al-Assad. After him are Habib Bourguiba, Emil Zátopek, Victor Borge, Alec Guinness, Stanley Matthews, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, and Vittorio Gassman.

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In France

Among people born in France, Roger Vadim ranks 290 out of 6,770. Before him are Désirée Clary (1777), Pope Sylvester II (938), Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738), Francis de Sales (1567), Mireille Mathieu (1946), and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767). After him are François Quesnay (1694), Gabriel Fauré (1845), Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757), Robert II of France (972), J. M. G. Le Clézio (1940), and Jérôme Bonaparte (1784).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Roger Vadim ranks 5. Before him are Roman Polanski (1933), François Truffaut (1932), Jean-Luc Godard (1930), and Georges Méliès (1861). After him are Luc Besson (1959), Jacques Tati (1907), Claude Chabrol (1930), Éric Rohmer (1920), Jean-Jacques Annaud (1943), Alain Resnais (1922), and William Wyler (1902).

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Filmography

Barbarella
Director
In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.
Oct 10o 19686 / 10
...And God Created Woman
Director
Juliette Hardy is sexual dynamite, and has the men of a French coastal town panting. But Antoine, the only man who affects her likewise, wouldn't dream of settling down with a woman his friends consider the town tramp.
Nov 28o 19566.122 / 10
Spirits of the Dead
Director
Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe: a cruel countess haunted by a ghostly horse, a sadistic young man haunted by his double, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil.
May 16o 19686.266 / 10