FILM DIRECTOR

Terence Davies

1945 - 2023

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Terence Davies (10 November 1945 – 7 October 2023) was a British screenwriter, film director, and novelist. He is best known as the writer and director of autobiographical films, including Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988), The Long Day Closes (1992) and the collage film Of Time and the City (2008), as well as the literary adaptations The Neon Bible (1995), The House of Mirth (2000), The Deep Blue Sea (2011) and Sunset Song (2015). His final two feature films were centered around the lives of influential literary figures, Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion (2016) and Siegfried Sassoon in Benediction (2021). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Terence Davies has received more than 620,101 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Terence Davies is the 681st most popular film director (up from 1,375th in 2019), the 2,430th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,808th in 2019) and the 51st most popular British Film Director.

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  • 620k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.88

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Terence Davies ranks 681 out of 2,041. Before him are W. S. Van Dyke, Burt Kennedy, Vilgot Sjöman, Majid Majidi, Ruy Guerra, and Billy Hayes. After him are Paul Mazursky, Aaron Russo, Alejandro Amenábar, Gérard Krawczyk, Harun Farocki, and Bruce Beresford.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Terence Davies ranks 286. Before him are Prawit Wongsuwon, Zdeňka Vávrová, Jim Davis, Ali Akbar Velayati, Leif G. W. Persson, and Jean-Claude Izzo. After him are Tom Segev, Doug Clifford, Sandro de América, Jean Ragnotti, Lydia Shum, and Romeo Benetti. Among people deceased in 2023, Terence Davies ranks 288. Before him are John Pilger, Deniz Baykal, Angel Wagenstein, Friedrich Cerha, Vyacheslav Zaytsev, and David Del Tredici. After him are Ignacio López Tarso, Eugenio Calabi, Agneta Andersson, Jan Olsson, Francisco Ibáñez Talavera, and Argentina Menis.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Terence Davies ranks 2,430 out of 8,785. Before him are Delroy Lindo (1952), Edwin Lutyens (1869), Richard Cobden (1804), William Hope Hodgson (1877), Pete Burns (1959), and Charles Lamb (1775). After him are William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford (1768), Philip Catherine (1942), Richard Bremmer (1953), Arthur Wynne (1871), Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (1478), and Thomas Wright (1711).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Terence Davies ranks 51. Before him are Nicolas Roeg (1928), John Glen (1932), Andrew Birkin (1945), John Madden (1949), Paul Greengrass (1955), and Robert Stevenson (1905). After him are Richard Marquand (1937), J. Stuart Blackton (1875), James Whale (1889), Stephen Daldry (1960), Terence Fisher (1904), and Laura Mulvey (1941).

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