FILM DIRECTOR

Terry Gilliam

1940 - Today

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Terrence Vance Gilliam ( GIL-ee-əm; born 22 November 1940) is an American-British filmmaker, comedian, collage animator, and actor. He gained stardom as a member of the Monty Python comedy troupe alongside John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, and Graham Chapman. Together they collaborated on the sketch series Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969–1974) and the films Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975, which Gilliam co-directed as well), Life of Brian (1979) and The Meaning of Life (1983). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Terry Gilliam has received more than 8,517,560 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Terry Gilliam is the 79th most popular film director (down from 66th in 2019), the 554th most popular biography from United States (down from 461st in 2019) and the 17th most popular American Film Director.

Terry Gilliam is most famous for his work on Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Brazil, and 12 Monkeys.

Memorability Metrics

  • 8.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 71.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 64

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Terry Gilliam ranks 79 out of 2,041. Before him are Ernst Lubitsch, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Alain Resnais, Sydney Pollack, William Wyler, and Elia Kazan. After him are Franco Zeffirelli, Costa-Gavras, Dario Argento, Carlos Saura, F. W. Murnau, and Peter Brook.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Terry Gilliam ranks 38. Before him are Tony Tan, Giorgio Moroder, Kip Thorne, Anna Karina, Raquel Welch, and Burt Young. After him are Dario Argento, Abdurrahman Wahid, Tabaré Vázquez, Julie Christie, Paolo Borsellino, and H. R. Giger.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Terry Gilliam ranks 554 out of 20,380. Before him are Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804), Burt Young (1940), Bob Beamon (1946), Harold Lloyd (1893), Chet Baker (1929), and Donna Summer (1948). After him are Immanuel Wallerstein (1930), Kamala Harris (1964), T. S. Eliot (1888), Oprah Winfrey (1954), Carl Weathers (1948), and Gloria Gaynor (1947).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Terry Gilliam ranks 17. Before him are Oliver Stone (1946), Brian De Palma (1940), Stephen Hillenburg (1961), Robert Zemeckis (1952), Chuck Jones (1912), and Sydney Pollack (1934). After him are Jim Jarmusch (1953), William Friedkin (1935), George Cukor (1899), Sidney Lumet (1924), Michael Mann (1943), and Sam Peckinpah (1925).

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