1935 - 2023
William David Friedkin (August 29, 1935 – August 7, 2023) was an American film, television and opera director, producer, and screenwriter who was closely identified with the "New Hollywood" movement of the 1970s. Beginning his career in documentaries in the early 1960s, he is best known for his crime thriller film The French Connection (1971), which won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and the horror film The Exorcist (1973), which earned him another Academy Award nomination for Best Director. Friedkin's other films in the 1970s and 1980s include the drama The Boys in the Band (1970), considered a milestone of queer cinema, the originally deprecated, now lauded thriller Sorcerer (1977), the crime comedy drama The Brink's Job (1978), the controversial thriller Cruising (1980), and the neo-noir thriller To Live and Die in L.A. (1985). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Friedkin has received more than 3,678,493 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). William Friedkin is the 165th most popular film director (down from 121st in 2019), the 1,077th most popular biography from United States (down from 803rd in 2019) and the 44th most popular American Film Director.
William Friedkin is most famous for directing the horror film The Exorcist.
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Among film directors, William Friedkin ranks 165 out of 1,581. Before him are Max Reinhardt, Sergio Corbucci, Volker Schlöndorff, Guillermo del Toro, Jacques Rivette, and Nagisa Oshima. After him are Masaki Kobayashi, Alexander Dovzhenko, Jonathan Demme, Kathryn Bigelow, Bille August, and Alejandro González Iñárritu.
1873 - 1943
HPI: 61.79
Rank: 159
1926 - 1990
HPI: 61.77
Rank: 160
1939 - Present
HPI: 61.74
Rank: 161
1964 - Present
HPI: 61.74
Rank: 162
1928 - 2016
HPI: 61.71
Rank: 163
1932 - 2013
HPI: 61.70
Rank: 164
1935 - 2023
HPI: 61.66
Rank: 165
1916 - 1996
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 166
1894 - 1956
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 167
1944 - 2017
HPI: 61.59
Rank: 168
1951 - Present
HPI: 61.57
Rank: 169
1948 - Present
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 170
1963 - Present
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 171
Among people born in 1935, William Friedkin ranks 41. Before him are Miroslav Blažević, Mirella Freni, Giya Kancheli, David Harvey, Jim Peebles, and Jerry Lee Lewis. After him are Satoshi Ōmura, Sylvia Earle, Danilo Kiš, Mylène Demongeot, Wim Duisenberg, and Masahito, Prince Hitachi. Among people deceased in 2023, William Friedkin ranks 45. Before him are Paul Berg, Rosalynn Carter, Harry Markowitz, Burt Young, Alain Touraine, and Lucile Randon. After him are Pervez Musharraf, Ryuichi Sakamoto, John B. Goodenough, Antonio Negri, David McCallum, and Ivan Silayev.
1935 - 2023
HPI: 62.49
Rank: 35
1935 - 2020
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 36
1935 - 2019
HPI: 62.04
Rank: 37
1935 - Present
HPI: 62.02
Rank: 38
1935 - Present
HPI: 61.69
Rank: 39
1935 - 2022
HPI: 61.69
Rank: 40
1935 - 2023
HPI: 61.66
Rank: 41
1935 - Present
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 42
1935 - Present
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 43
1935 - 1989
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 44
1935 - 2022
HPI: 61.10
Rank: 45
1935 - 2005
HPI: 61.07
Rank: 46
1935 - Present
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 47
1926 - 2023
HPI: 62.26
Rank: 39
1927 - 2023
HPI: 62.10
Rank: 40
1927 - 2023
HPI: 61.89
Rank: 41
1940 - 2023
HPI: 61.80
Rank: 42
1925 - 2023
HPI: 61.80
Rank: 43
1904 - 2023
HPI: 61.70
Rank: 44
1935 - 2023
HPI: 61.66
Rank: 45
1943 - 2023
HPI: 61.34
Rank: 46
1952 - 2023
HPI: 61.34
Rank: 47
1922 - 2023
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 48
1933 - 2023
HPI: 60.92
Rank: 49
1933 - 2023
HPI: 60.89
Rank: 50
1930 - 2023
HPI: 60.78
Rank: 51
Among people born in United States, William Friedkin ranks 1,077 out of 18,182. Before him are Daniel Bell (1919), Guy Williams (1924), Peter Eisenman (1932), G. Stanley Hall (1846), Alicia Keys (1981), and Ben E. King (1938). After him are Jody Williams (1950), Burton Richter (1931), Cordell Hull (1871), Leo Fender (1909), Sheldon Lee Glashow (1932), and Dick Van Dyke (1925).
1919 - 2011
HPI: 61.68
Rank: 1,071
1924 - 1989
HPI: 61.68
Rank: 1,072
1932 - Present
HPI: 61.67
Rank: 1,073
1846 - 1924
HPI: 61.66
Rank: 1,074
1981 - Present
HPI: 61.66
Rank: 1,075
1938 - 2015
HPI: 61.66
Rank: 1,076
1935 - 2023
HPI: 61.66
Rank: 1,077
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 1,078
1931 - 2018
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 1,079
1871 - 1955
HPI: 61.64
Rank: 1,080
1909 - 1991
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 1,081
1932 - Present
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 1,082
1925 - Present
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 1,083
Among film directors born in United States, William Friedkin ranks 44. Before him are D. W. Griffith (1875), Joel Schumacher (1939), Blake Edwards (1922), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909), Ed Wood (1924), and Robert Wise (1914). After him are Jonathan Demme (1944), Kathryn Bigelow (1951), Robert Aldrich (1918), Don Siegel (1912), James Ivory (1928), and Vincente Minnelli (1903).
1875 - 1948
HPI: 62.72
Rank: 38
1939 - 2020
HPI: 62.35
Rank: 39
1922 - 2010
HPI: 62.25
Rank: 40
1909 - 1993
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 41
1924 - 1978
HPI: 62.05
Rank: 42
1914 - 2005
HPI: 61.95
Rank: 43
1935 - 2023
HPI: 61.66
Rank: 44
1944 - 2017
HPI: 61.59
Rank: 45
1951 - Present
HPI: 61.57
Rank: 46
1918 - 1983
HPI: 61.37
Rank: 47
1912 - 1991
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 48
1928 - Present
HPI: 61.03
Rank: 49
1903 - 1986
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 50