1923 - 2006
Walerian Borowczyk (21 October 1923 – 3 February 2006) was a Polish film director described by film critics as a "genius who also happened to be a pornographer". He directed 40 films between 1946 and 1988. Borowczyk settled in Paris in 1959. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walerian Borowczyk has received more than 334,159 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Walerian Borowczyk is the 343rd most popular film director (down from 331st in 2019), the 362nd most popular biography from Poland (up from 364th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Polish Film Director.
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Among film directors, Walerian Borowczyk ranks 343 out of 1,581. Before him are Edward Zwick, Makoto Shinkai, Samuel Fuller, Maya Deren, Guy Hamilton, and Robert Frank. After him are Mamoru Oshii, Bong Joon-ho, Russ Meyer, William A. Wellman, Nick Castle, and Yann Arthus-Bertrand.
1952 - Present
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 337
1973 - Present
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 338
1912 - 1997
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 339
1917 - 1961
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 340
1922 - 2016
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 341
1924 - 2019
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 342
1923 - 2006
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 343
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 344
1969 - Present
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 345
1922 - 2004
HPI: 56.41
Rank: 346
1896 - 1975
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 347
1947 - Present
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 348
1946 - Present
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 349
Among people born in 1923, Walerian Borowczyk ranks 97. Before him are Gyula Lóránt, Zlatko Čajkovski, Gloria Grahame, André Courrèges, Maria Gripe, and Yves Bonnefoy. After him are Estelle Getty, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Robert Maxwell, Belisario Betancur, Uziel Gal, and Ernst Nolte. Among people deceased in 2006, Walerian Borowczyk ranks 87. Before him are Sven Nykvist, Peter Benchley, Jane Jacobs, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jack Warden, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer. After him are Robert Plutchik, Peter Norman, Prince George William of Hanover, Dürrüşehvar Sultan, Igor Sergeyev, and Mako.
1923 - 1981
HPI: 56.95
Rank: 91
1923 - 1998
HPI: 56.91
Rank: 92
1923 - 1981
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 93
1923 - 2016
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 94
1923 - 2007
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 95
1923 - 2016
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 96
1923 - 2006
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 97
1923 - 2008
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 98
1923 - 2013
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 99
1923 - 1991
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 100
1923 - 2018
HPI: 56.18
Rank: 101
1923 - 2002
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 102
1923 - 2016
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 103
1922 - 2006
HPI: 56.98
Rank: 81
1940 - 2006
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 82
1916 - 2006
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 83
1966 - 2006
HPI: 56.79
Rank: 84
1920 - 2006
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 85
1925 - 2006
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 86
1923 - 2006
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 87
1927 - 2006
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 88
1942 - 2006
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 89
1915 - 2006
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 90
1914 - 2006
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 91
1938 - 2006
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 92
1933 - 2006
HPI: 55.79
Rank: 93
Among people born in Poland, Walerian Borowczyk ranks 362 out of 1,454. Before him are Roman Ingarden (1893), Daniel Olbrychski (1945), Tadeusz Kantor (1915), Ivan Vyhovsky (1608), Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (1699), and Samuel Goldwyn (1879). After him are Joachim Kroll (1933), Mateusz Morawiecki (1968), Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885), Hermann von Eichhorn (1848), Lestek (870), and Werner Naumann (1909).
1893 - 1970
HPI: 56.66
Rank: 356
1945 - Present
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 357
1915 - 1990
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 358
1608 - 1664
HPI: 56.64
Rank: 359
1699 - 1753
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 360
1879 - 1974
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 361
1923 - 2006
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 362
1933 - 1991
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 363
1968 - Present
HPI: 56.49
Rank: 364
1885 - 1939
HPI: 56.46
Rank: 365
1848 - 1918
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 366
870 - 930
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 367
1909 - 1982
HPI: 56.42
Rank: 368
Among film directors born in Poland, Walerian Borowczyk ranks 11. Before him are Jerzy Grotowski (1933), Jerzy Skolimowski (1938), Agnieszka Holland (1948), Robert Wiene (1873), Jean Epstein (1897), and Krzysztof Zanussi (1939). After him are Jerzy Hoffman (1932), Jerzy Stuhr (1947), Paweł Pawlikowski (1957), Max Fleischer (1883), Wojciech Has (1925), and Andrzej Munk (1921).
1933 - 1999
HPI: 63.79
Rank: 5
1938 - Present
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 6
1948 - Present
HPI: 60.24
Rank: 7
1873 - 1938
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 8
1897 - 1953
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 9
1939 - Present
HPI: 57.93
Rank: 10
1923 - 2006
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 11
1932 - Present
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 12
1947 - Present
HPI: 55.00
Rank: 13
1957 - Present
HPI: 53.92
Rank: 14
1883 - 1972
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 15
1925 - 2000
HPI: 51.83
Rank: 16
1921 - 1961
HPI: 51.71
Rank: 17