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Roman Polanski

1933 - Today

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Raymond Roman Thierry Polański (né Liebling; born 18 August 1933) is a French and Polish film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and convicted sex offender. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, ten César Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, as well as the Golden Bear and a Palme d'Or. In 1977, Polanski was arrested for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roman Polanski has received more than 29,196,341 page views. His biography is available in 89 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 85 in 2019). Roman Polanski is the 10th most popular film director (up from 12th in 2019), the 119th most popular biography from France (up from 130th in 2019) and the most popular French Film Director.

Roman Polanski is a Polish-French film director, producer, writer, and actor. He is most famous for directing the films Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, and The Pianist.

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  • 89

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  • 6.94

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  • 4.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Roman Polanski ranks 10 out of 2,041. Before him are Hayao Miyazaki, Alfred Hitchcock, Federico Fellini, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, and Woody Allen. After him are Ridley Scott, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sergei Eisenstein, Luis Buñuel, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Leni Riefenstahl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Roman Polanski ranks 4. Before him are Akihito, Jean-Paul Belmondo, and Garrincha. After him are Dalida, Karl Lagerfeld, Montserrat Caballé, Yoko Ono, Lina Medina, Michael Caine, Tinto Brass, and Claudio Abbado.

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In France

Among people born in France, Roman Polanski ranks 119 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean de La Fontaine (1621), Hector Berlioz (1803), Marie Thérèse of France (1778), Charles VII of France (1403), Sully Prudhomme (1839), and Charles VIII of France (1470). After him are Anatole France (1844), Jean Cocteau (1889), Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (1708), Guy de Maupassant (1850), Hugh Capet (940), and Charles VI of France (1368).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Roman Polanski ranks 1. After him are François Truffaut (1932), Jean-Luc Godard (1930), Georges Méliès (1861), Roger Vadim (1928), 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

The Pianist
Director
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
Sep 17o 20028.382 / 10
Rosemary's Baby
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A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.
Jun 12o 19687.827 / 10
Chinatown
Director
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.
Jun 20o 19747.916 / 10