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FILM DIRECTOR

Samuel Fuller

1912 - 1997

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Samuel Michael "Sam" Fuller (August 12, 1912 – October 30, 1997) was an American film director, screenwriter, novelist, journalist, actor, and World War II veteran known for directing low-budget genre movies with controversial themes, often made outside the conventional studio system. Fuller wrote his first screenplay for Hats Off in 1936, and made his directorial debut with the Western I Shot Jesse James (1949). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel Fuller has received more than 775,171 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Samuel Fuller is the 339th most popular film director (up from 353rd in 2019), the 2,199th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,306th in 2019) and the 97th most popular American Film Director.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Samuel Fuller ranks 339 out of 1,581. Before him are Chantal Akerman, John Boorman, Raúl Ruiz, Park Chan-wook, Edward Zwick, and Makoto Shinkai. After him are Maya Deren, Guy Hamilton, Robert Frank, Walerian Borowczyk, Mamoru Oshii, and Bong Joon-ho.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Samuel Fuller ranks 98. Before him are Igor Markevitch, György Sárosi, Fritz Klingenberg, Kim Sung-gan, Melita Norwood, and Petar Stambolić. After him are Axel Springer, Khertek Anchimaa-Toka, Nereo Rocco, Fritz Fischer, Barbara Hutton, and Gordon Gollob. Among people deceased in 1997, Samuel Fuller ranks 78. Before him are Mate Boban, Alparslan Türkeş, Ernst Wilimowski, Giuseppe De Santis, Manfred von Ardenne, and Hugo Gunckel Lüer. After him are Gunpei Yokoi, Hastings Banda, François Furet, Virgilio Barco Vargas, Andrew Cunanan, and Walter Gotell.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Samuel Fuller ranks 2,199 out of 18,182. Before him are Victor Mature (1913), Karl Malone (1963), Langston Hughes (1902), Jerry Seinfeld (1954), Richard Rodgers (1902), and Edward Witten (1951). After him are Charles Whitman (1941), David Baltimore (1938), Lee J. Cobb (1911), Annie Jump Cannon (1863), George Crumb (1929), and Henry Winkler (1945).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Samuel Fuller ranks 97. Before him are John Frankenheimer (1930), Walter Lantz (1899), Saul Bass (1920), Jerome Robbins (1918), Ub Iwerks (1901), and Edward Zwick (1952). After him are Russ Meyer (1922), William A. Wellman (1896), Nick Castle (1947), Gerard Damiano (1928), James L. Brooks (1940), and Mervyn LeRoy (1900).

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Filmography

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