FILM DIRECTOR

Steve McQueen

1969 - Today

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Sir Steve Rodney McQueen (born 9 October 1969) is a British film director, film producer, screenwriter, and video artist. For services to the visual arts, he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2011. In 2014, he was included in Time magazine's annual Time 100 list of the "most influential people in the world". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Steve McQueen has received more than 26,014,278 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Steve McQueen is the 1,309th most popular film director (down from 952nd in 2019), the 4,463rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,335th in 2019) and the 97th most popular British Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 26M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Steve McQueen ranks 1,309 out of 2,041. Before him are David Frankel, Anders Thomas Jensen, Milcho Manchevski, Max Hardcore, Vladimir Motyl, and Oumarou Ganda. After him are Charles Reisner, Tosca Musk, Melville Shavelson, Yuli Raizman, Peter Berg, and Catherine Corsini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, Steve McQueen ranks 306. Before him are Shinichi Mochizuki, Kostya Tszyu, Zoran Primorac, Fran, Kazushi Sakuraba, and Tony Cetinski. After him are David Mitchell, Bahman Ghobadi, Maher Al-Mu'aiqly, Myles Kennedy, Oriol Junqueras, and Vitaliy Parakhnevych.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Steve McQueen ranks 4,463 out of 8,785. Before him are Frederick Rolfe (1860), Jesse Lingard (1992), Alice Eve (1982), Martin Wolf (1946), George Coulouris (1903), and John Dill (1881). After him are Pauline Baynes (1922), David Mitchell (1969), Alan Ayckbourn (1939), Howard Jones (1955), Simon Schama (1945), and George Galloway (1954).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Steve McQueen ranks 97. Before him are Simon West (1961), Terry George (1952), Jon Amiel (1948), Tom Hooper (1972), Richard Eyre (1943), and Peter Hall (1930). After him are Jonathan Lynn (1943), Sam Taylor-Johnson (1967), Michael Caton-Jones (1957), Mike Hodges (1932), A. Edward Sutherland (1895), and Geoffrey Unsworth (1914).

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Filmography

The Great Escape
Director
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.
Jul 3o 19637.948 / 10
Papillon
Director
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
Dec 16o 19737.848 / 10
Bullitt
Director
Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from the criminal's hothead brother Johnny, who is in protective custody in San Francisco under the watch of police lieutenant Frank Bullitt. When a pair of mob hitmen enter the scene, Bullitt follows their trail through a maze of complications and double-crosses. This thriller includes one of the most famous car chases ever filmed.
Oct 17o 19687.2 / 10