FILM DIRECTOR

William Hanna

1910 - 2001

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William "Bill" Denby Hanna (July 14, 1910 – March 22, 2001) was an American animator, voice actor, cartoonist, and musician, who co-founded the animation studio and production company Hanna-Barbera. Hanna joined the Harman and Ising animation studio in 1930 and steadily gained skill and prominence while working on cartoons such as Captain and the Kids. In 1937, while working at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Hanna met Joseph Barbera. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Hanna has received more than 2,241,004 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). William Hanna is the 81st most popular film director (up from 116th in 2019), the 574th most popular biography from United States (up from 820th in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Film Director.

William Hanna is most famous for his work with partner Joseph Barbera. Together, they created the cartoon characters Tom and Jerry, as well as other cartoons like The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, and Huckleberry Hound.

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  • 73.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, William Hanna ranks 81 out of 1,580. Before him are Takeshi Kitano, Stephen Hillenburg, Dario Argento, Costa-Gavras, Richard Attenborough, and Dziga Vertov. After him are Jean-Jacques Annaud, Sergei Parajanov, David Lean, David Cronenberg, Joel Schumacher, and Carl Theodor Dreyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, William Hanna ranks 19. Before him are Ronald Coase, Walter Schellenberg, Eric Berne, David Niven, Kurt Meyer, and Gerda Taro. After him are Dorothy Hodgkin, Jacques Monod, Samuel Barber, William Shockley, Chiang Ching-kuo, and Lee Byung-chul. Among people deceased in 2001, William Hanna ranks 17. Before him are Jack Lemmon, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Christiaan Barnard, Iannis Xenakis, Ahmad Shah Massoud, and Ernst Gombrich. After him are Fred Hoyle, Robert Ludlum, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Alberto Korda, Wilhelm Mohnke, and John Lee Hooker.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Hanna ranks 574 out of 15,968. Before him are Steven Tyler (1948), Ted Kennedy (1932), Alan Shepard (1923), Willem Dafoe (1955), Nancy Reagan (1921), and Harriet Tubman (1820). After him are Rod Steiger (1925), Carrie Fisher (1956), Martha Graham (1894), Nancy Sinatra (1940), Bing Crosby (1903), and Ruth Benedict (1887).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, William Hanna ranks 20. Before him are Terry Gilliam (1940), Robert Zemeckis (1952), Terrence Malick (1943), George A. Romero (1940), Howard Hawks (1896), and Stephen Hillenburg (1961). After him are Joel Schumacher (1939), Jim Jarmusch (1953), Oliver Stone (1946), John Huston (1906), Victor Fleming (1889), and Sidney Lumet (1924).

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Filmography

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