FILM DIRECTOR

Ted Kotcheff

1931 - Today

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William Theodore Kotcheff (born April 7, 1931) is a Canadian director and producer of film and television. He is known for directing such films as the seminal Australian New Wave picture Wake in Fright (1971), the Mordechai Richler adaptations The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) and Joshua Then and Now (1985), the original Rambo film First Blood (1982), and the comedies Fun with Dick and Jane (1977), North Dallas Forty (1979), and Weekend at Bernie's (1989). Kotcheff has been nominated for a Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction, a Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series, and twice for the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ted Kotcheff has received more than 619,990 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Ted Kotcheff is the 511th most popular film director (up from 592nd in 2019), the 154th most popular biography from Canada (up from 180th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Canadian Film Director.

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  • 620k

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  • 54.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Ted Kotcheffs by language

Over the past year Ted Kotcheff has had the most page views in the with 83,580 views, followed by German (11,176), and Italian (10,847). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Finnish (61.37%), Portuguese (48.41%), and German (33.51%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Ted Kotcheff ranks 511 out of 2,041. Before him are Henry Koster, Michael Apted, John Milius, Alessandro Blasetti, Lee Chang-dong, and Richard Boleslawski. After him are Sam Wood, Clarence Brown, Fernando Solanas, Boris Barnet, Mike Leigh, and Néstor Almendros.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Ted Kotcheff ranks 185. Before him are Ita Ever, Manolo Escobar, Ola Ullsten, Rajko Kuzmanović, Rubens de Falco, and Atsuko Ikeda. After him are George Maciunas, Shunsuke Kikuchi, Iajuddin Ahmed, Krzysztof Komeda, Fred Brooks, and John Gavin.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Ted Kotcheff ranks 154 out of 1,622. Before him are Gerald Bull (1928), Joshua Slocum (1844), Wilfrid Laurier (1841), Sid Meier (1954), Donald Arnold (1935), and James Gosling (1955). After him are Brian Kernighan (1942), Fay Wray (1907), Hayden Christensen (1981), Albert W. Tucker (1905), John Tuzo Wilson (1908), and Denys Arcand (1941).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Canada

Among film directors born in Canada, Ted Kotcheff ranks 8. Before him are David Cronenberg (1943), Norman Jewison (1926), Edward Dmytryk (1908), Denis Villeneuve (1967), Jack L. Warner (1892), and Arthur Hiller (1923). After him are Denys Arcand (1941), Roger Spottiswoode (1945), Allan Dwan (1885), Mark Robson (1913), Paul Haggis (1953), and Michel Brault (1928).

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Filmography

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Director
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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First Blood
Director
When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.
Oct 22o 19827.5 / 10
Weekend at Bernie's
Director
Two friends are invited for a weekend to a luxury island with their boss. The boss gets killed and nobody seems to notice, except for the two friends. In order not to become suspects of murder they treat the body as a puppet and make people believe he's still alive. The killer wants to do his job so when he is informed that the stiff is still alive he's got to shoot him again, and again, and again.
Jul 5o 19896.381 / 10