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FILM DIRECTOR

William Kennedy Dickson

1860 - 1935

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William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935) was a British inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Kennedy Dickson has received more than 247,089 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). William Kennedy Dickson is the 284th most popular film director (down from 264th in 2019), the 1,705th most popular biography from France (down from 1,618th in 2019) and the 36th most popular French Film Director.

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  • 57.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, William Kennedy Dickson ranks 284 out of 1,581. Before him are Frank Lloyd, Paul Schrader, Otar Iosseliani, Steven Soderbergh, Roger Corman, and Rouben Mamoulian. After him are Ousmane Sembène, Darren Aronofsky, Michael Bay, Germaine Dulac, Ruggero Deodato, and Yuen Woo-ping.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, William Kennedy Dickson ranks 45. Before him are James McKeen Cattell, Gyula Andrássy the Younger, Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria, Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis, Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, and Jules Laforgue. After him are Sergey Sazonov, Waldemar Haffkine, Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz, Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Russia, Annie Oakley, and Sunanda Kumariratana. Among people deceased in 1935, William Kennedy Dickson ranks 44. Before him are Paul Bourget, Anna Ancher, Ma Barker, Kurt Tucholsky, Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom, and Jean Béraud. After him are Princess Alice of Parma, Gareth Jones, Valerian Kuybyshev, Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Abraham Isaac Kook, and Bernhard Schmidt.

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In France

Among people born in France, William Kennedy Dickson ranks 1,705 out of 6,011. Before him are William V, Duke of Aquitaine (969), Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine (1524), Theobald V, Count of Blois (1130), Georges Duhamel (1884), Marie Jeanne Baptiste of Savoy-Nemours (1644), and Gottfried von Strassburg (1180). After him are Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale (1822), Louis of Toulouse (1274), François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois (1641), Jean Sorel (1934), Jean-Claude Mézières (1938), and Raymond Roussel (1877).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, William Kennedy Dickson ranks 36. Before him are Chris Marker (1921), Julien Duvivier (1896), Jean-Jacques Beineix (1946), Patrice Chéreau (1944), Jean Rouch (1917), and Jacques Becker (1906). After him are Germaine Dulac (1882), Leos Carax (1960), Philippe de Broca (1933), Claude Sautet (1924), Francis Veber (1937), and François Ozon (1967).

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Filmography

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