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FILM DIRECTOR

Wolfgang Petersen

1941 - 2022

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Wolfgang Petersen (14 March 1941 – 12 August 2022) was a German filmmaker. He was nominated for two Academy Awards for the World War II submarine warfare film Das Boot (1981). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wolfgang Petersen has received more than 1,879,730 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Wolfgang Petersen is the 92nd most popular film director (up from 98th in 2019), the 558th most popular biography from Germany (down from 556th in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Film Director.

Wolfgang Petersen is most famous for directing "The Perfect Storm" and "In the Line of Fire."

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  • 1.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Wolfgang Petersen ranks 92 out of 1,581. Before him are Carlos Saura, Satyajit Ray, René Clair, Christopher Nolan, Fred Zinnemann, and Andrzej Żuławski. After him are Tony Scott, Kenji Mizoguchi, George A. Romero, William Hanna, Howard Hawks, and Walter Hill.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Wolfgang Petersen ranks 42. Before him are Bernie Sanders, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, Nathalie Delon, Gheorghe Zamfir, Art Garfunkel, and Riccardo Muti. After him are Ali Hassan al-Majid, Dennis Ritchie, Anne Rice, Jürgen Prochnow, Chick Corea, and Bobby Moore. Among people deceased in 2022, Wolfgang Petersen ranks 31. Before him are Yusuf al-Qaradawi, James Caan, Margaret Keane, Robbie Coltrane, Meat Loaf, and Vladimir Zhirinovsky. After him are Ben Roy Mottelson, Peter Brook, Olivia Newton-John, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, Thierry Mugler, and Lata Mangeshkar.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wolfgang Petersen ranks 558 out of 6,142. Before him are Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria (1847), Karl Ziegler (1898), Kurt Meyer (1910), Heinrich Brüning (1885), Erich Hoepner (1886), and Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604). After him are Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1750), Hans von Seeckt (1866), Elisabeth of Wied (1843), Karl Gebhardt (1897), Rupert, King of Germany (1352), and John of Saxony (1801).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Wolfgang Petersen ranks 8. Before him are Wim Wenders (1945), Michael Haneke (1942), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945), Werner Herzog (1942), F. W. Murnau (1888), and Ernst Lubitsch (1892). After him are Roland Emmerich (1955), Volker Schlöndorff (1939), Max Ophüls (1902), Robert Siodmak (1900), Thea von Harbou (1888), and Douglas Sirk (1897).

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Filmography

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