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FILM DIRECTOR

Roman Polanski

1933 - Today

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Raymond Roman Thierry Polański (né Liebling; 18 August 1933) is a French and Polish film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, nine César Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, as well as the Golden Bear and a Palme d'Or. His Polish Jewish parents moved the family from his birthplace in Paris back to Kraków in 1937. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roman Polanski has received more than 24,809,008 page views. His biography is available in 85 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 80 in 2019). Roman Polanski is the 12th most popular film director (down from 7th in 2019), the 130th most popular biography from France (down from 73rd 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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  • 75.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 85

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Roman Polanski ranks 12 out of 1,581. Before him are Stanley Kubrick, Ingmar Bergman, Hayao Miyazaki, Woody Allen, Ridley Scott, and Sergei Eisenstein. After him are Pier Paolo Pasolini, Luchino Visconti, Luis Buñuel, Andrei Tarkovsky, Jean-Luc Godard, and Sergio Leone.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Roman Polanski ranks 6. Before him are Jean-Paul Belmondo, Akihito, Karl Lagerfeld, Dalida, and Garrincha. After him are Montserrat Caballé, Michael Caine, Yoko Ono, Charles K. Kao, James Brown, and Francisco Gento.

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In France

Among people born in France, Roman Polanski ranks 130 out of 6,011. Before him are Camille Saint-Saëns (1835), Henri Poincaré (1854), Nicolas Poussin (1594), Luc Montagnier (1932), Charles VI of France (1368), and François Villon (1431). After him are Thérèse of Lisieux (1873), Godfrey of Bouillon (1060), Sully Prudhomme (1839), Paul Verlaine (1844), Louis XII of France (1462), and Alexandre Dumas fils (1824).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Roman Polanski ranks 1. After him are Jean-Luc Godard (1930), François Truffaut (1932), Georges Méliès (1861), Éric Rohmer (1920), Jacques Tati (1907), William Wyler (1902), Roger Vadim (1928), Claude Chabrol (1930), Luc Besson (1959), Jean-Jacques Annaud (1943), and Robert Bresson (1901).

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Filmography

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