FILM DIRECTOR

Wolfgang Petersen

1941 - 2022

Photo of Wolfgang Petersen

Icon of person Wolfgang Petersen

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 2,049,065 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Wolfgang Petersen is the 87th most popular film director (up from 92nd in 2019), the 551st most popular biography from Germany (up from 558th 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."

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Wolfgang Petersen ranks 87 out of 2,041. Before him are Costa-Gavras, Dario Argento, Carlos Saura, F. W. Murnau, Peter Brook, and Fred Zinnemann. After him are Satyajit Ray, Jim Jarmusch, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Richard Attenborough, William Friedkin, and Andrzej Żuławski.

Most Popular Film Directors in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Wolfgang Petersen ranks 46. Before him are Frank Farian, Dennis Ritchie, Michael D. Higgins, Ali Hassan al-Majid, Bobby Moore, and Gheorghe Zamfir. After him are Art Garfunkel, Princess Muna al-Hussein, Nona Gaprindashvili, Hage Geingob, Riccardo Muti, and Ivan Gašparovič. Among people deceased in 2022, Wolfgang Petersen ranks 32. Before him are Sidney Poitier, Dietrich Mateschitz, Thích Nhất Hạnh, Angela Lansbury, Lata Mangeshkar, and Peter Brook. After him are Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Bruno Latour, Mylène Demongeot, Ray Liotta, James Caan, and Bill Russell.

Others Born in 1941

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 2022

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wolfgang Petersen ranks 551 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm Marx (1863), Louis II, Prince of Monaco (1870), Kurt Student (1890), Willi Stoph (1914), Robert Ritter von Greim (1892), and Sophia Dorothea of Hanover (1687). After him are Kurt Weill (1900), Hans Jonas (1903), Jenny von Westphalen (1814), Caroline of Baden (1776), August Schleicher (1821), and Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873).

Others born in Germany

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

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

German born Film Directors

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous