FILM DIRECTOR

Sergio Leone

1929 - 1989

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Sergio Leone ( lee-OH-nee, Italian: [ˈsɛrdʒo leˈoːne]; 3 January 1929 – 30 April 1989) was an Italian filmmaker, credited as the pioneer of the spaghetti Western genre. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential directors in the history of cinema. Leone's film-making style includes juxtaposing extreme close-up shots with lengthy long shots. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sergio Leone has received more than 4,640,681 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia. Sergio Leone is the 20th most popular film director (down from 18th in 2019), the 239th most popular biography from Italy (down from 210th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Italian Film Director.

Sergio Leone is most famous for his spaghetti westerns. He is known for directing the films A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, and Once Upon a Time in America.

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  • 4.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 73.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 75

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Sergio Leone ranks 20 out of 2,041. Before him are Luis Buñuel, Andrei Tarkovsky, Leni Riefenstahl, Wim Wenders, Luchino Visconti, and François Truffaut. After him are Jean-Luc Godard, Pedro Almodóvar, Francis Ford Coppola, Bernardo Bertolucci, Agnès Varda, and Georges Méliès.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Sergio Leone ranks 11. Before him are Lev Yashin, Milan Kundera, Bud Spencer, Martin Luther King Jr., Jürgen Habermas, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. After him are Hassan II of Morocco, Imre Kertész, Irene Papas, Jacques Brel, Yayoi Kusama, and Michael Ende. Among people deceased in 1989, Sergio Leone ranks 12. Before him are Samuel Beckett, Herbert von Karajan, Andrei Sakharov, Ted Bundy, Konrad Lorenz, and Georges Simenon. After him are Elena Ceaușescu, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Osamu Tezuka, Lee Van Cleef, János Kádár, and Laurence Olivier.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Sergio Leone ranks 239 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Innocent IX (1519), Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696), Giorgio Armani (1934), Pope Gregory XIV (1535), Pope Innocent XII (1615), and Pope Eugene III (1080). After him are Arcangelo Corelli (1653), Pope Clement XIV (1705), Pope Nicholas V (1397), Pope Innocent XIII (1655), Pope Pelagius II (520), and Pliny the Younger (61).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Italy

Among film directors born in Italy, Sergio Leone ranks 4. Before him are Federico Fellini (1920), Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922), and Luchino Visconti (1906). After him are Bernardo Bertolucci (1941), Michelangelo Antonioni (1912), Tinto Brass (1933), Vittorio De Sica (1901), Roberto Rossellini (1906), Frank Capra (1897), Franco Zeffirelli (1923), and Dario Argento (1940).

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