FILM DIRECTOR

William Castle

1914 - 1977

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William Castle (born William Schloss Jr.; April 24, 1914 – May 31, 1977) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. Orphaned at 11, Castle dropped out of high school at 15 to work in the theater. He came to the attention of Columbia Pictures for his talent for promotion and was hired. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Castle has received more than 677,827 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). William Castle is the 1,150th most popular film director (down from 957th in 2019), the 7,496th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,309th in 2019) and the 287th most popular American Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 680k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of William Castles by language

Over the past year William Castle has had the most page views in the with 97,802 views, followed by Spanish (4,290), and Italian (3,971). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Afrikaans (127.72%), Catalan (116.90%), and Korean (47.39%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, William Castle ranks 1,150 out of 2,041. Before him are Frederic Zelnik, Radu Mihăileanu, Juan José Campanella, Jonathan Glazer, Rachid Bouchareb, and E. A. Dupont. After him are Jia Zhangke, María Luisa Bemberg, Pedro Costa, Daniel Mann, Robert Guédiguian, and Georg Jacoby.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, William Castle ranks 301. Before him are Aharon Katzir, Julio Caro Baroja, Harold Russell, Robert R. Wilson, Juanita Moore, and Mustafa Mansour. After him are Oscar Casanovas, George Bruns, Joe Mercer, Fiorenzo Marini, Alessandro Frigerio, and Kenneth More. Among people deceased in 1977, William Castle ranks 199. Before him are Károly Kós, Ulises Poirier, Nellie Tayloe Ross, Giorgio La Pira, Héctor Méndez, and Ethel Waters. After him are Adalbert Püllöck, David Toro, Ibrahim Biçakçiu, Gérard Delbeke, Nalini Bala Devi, and Sergei Lemeshev.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Castle ranks 7,496 out of 20,380. Before him are Dana Vespoli (1972), Frederick C. Weyand (1916), Justin Gaethje (1988), Jodi Lyn O'Keefe (1978), Alice Neel (1900), and Verna Felton (1890). After him are Strother Martin (1919), Sarah Silverman (1970), Louis L'Amour (1908), Andy Stanfield (1927), Bruce Arena (1951), and Monte Blue (1887).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, William Castle ranks 287. Before him are Pete Docter (1968), Wally Pfister (1961), Alan Ball (1957), Ron Clements (1953), Chuck Russell (1958), and Jon Turteltaub (1963). After him are Daniel Mann (1912), David R. Ellis (1952), Richard Rush (1929), John Musker (1953), Jon Avnet (1949), and Trey Parker (1969).

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Filmography

House on Haunted Hill
Director
Frederick Loren has invited five strangers to a party of a lifetime. He is offering each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in a house. But the house is no ordinary house. This house has a reputation for murder. Frederick offers them each a gun for protection. They all arrived in a hearse and will either leave in it $10,000 richer or leave in it dead!
Feb 17o 19596.8 / 10
The Tingler
Director
A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The Tingler that lives within each person on the spinal cord and is suppressed only when people scream when scared.
Jul 29o 19596.347 / 10
13 Ghosts
Director
Reclusive Dr. Zorba has died and left his mansion to his nephew Cyrus and his family. They will need to search the house to find the doctor's fortune, but along with the property they have also inherited the occultist's collection of 13 ghosts.
Jul 18o 19605.733 / 10