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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 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 583,747 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Terence Davies is the 1,381st most popular film director, the 4,820th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 112th most popular British Film Director.

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  • 580k

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  • 41.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Terence Davies ranks 1,381 out of 1,581Before him are Egon Günther, James Algar, Ettore Giannini, Semih Kaplanoğlu, Marion Hänsel, and Bryan Forbes. After him are Paul McGuigan, Shyam Benegal, François Dupeyron, Mahesh Bhatt, Lisa Cholodenko, and Richard Dembo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Terence Davies ranks 505Before him are César Maluco, Ghiță Licu, Rick Berman, Ousmane Issoufi Maïga, Henrik Nordbrandt, and Ewa Lipska. After him are Avi Shlaim, Enver Hadžiabdić, Luis Garisto, J. P. Mallory, Gail Chanfreau, and Ottorino Sartor. Among people deceased in 2023, Terence Davies ranks 351Before him are Niels Holst-Sørensen, Safi Faye, Martin Davis, Pascoal Mocumbi, Bob Richards, and Henrik Nordbrandt. After him are Gordon Pinsent, Richard Murphy, Terry Dischinger, Rolf Harris, Benjamin Zephaniah, and Sergio Gori.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Terence Davies ranks 4,820 out of 7,765Before him are Bryan Forbes (1926), Louise Brown (1978), Mary Midgley (1919), Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (1902), Alexander Albon (1996), and Kate Mosse (1961). After him are William Morgan (1547), Victoria Tennant (1950), Laura Fraser (1976), Peter Cook (1937), Ewan MacColl (1915), and I. J. Good (1916).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Terence Davies ranks 112Before him are Andrea Arnold (1961), Peter Glenville (1913), Robert Hamer (1911), Mike Hodges (1932), Clive Donner (1926), and Bryan Forbes (1926). After him are Paul McGuigan (1963), Kevin Macdonald (1967), Val Guest (1911), Ken Hughes (1922), A. Edward Sutherland (1895), and Rupert Sanders (1971).

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