FILM DIRECTOR

Woody Allen

1935 - Today

Woody Allen

Heywood "Woody" Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American film director, writer, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades and multiple Academy Award-winning films. He began his career writing material for television in the 1950s, working alongside Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Larry Gelbart, and Neil Simon. He also published several books featuring short stories and wrote humor pieces for The New Yorker. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Woody Allen has received more than 20,375,994 page views. His biography is available in 106 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 103 in 2019). Woody Allen is the 10th most popular film director (down from 8th in 2019), the 73rd most popular biography from United States (down from 71st in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Film Director.

Woody Allen is most famous for his comedy films, which he writes, directs, and stars in.

Memorability Metrics

20M
Page Views (PV)
82.76
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
106
Languages Editions (L)
6.76
Effective Languages (L*)
5.60
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Woody Allen ranks 10 out of 1,580. Before him are Stanley Kubrick, Hayao Miyazaki, Akira Kurosawa, Roman Polanski, Ingmar Bergman, and Federico Fellini. After him are Sergei Eisenstein, Sergio Leone, Francis Ford Coppola, Andrei Tarkovsky, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Ridley Scott.

Most Popular Film Directors in Wikipedia

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Stanley Kubrick
1928 - 1999
HPI: 84.93
Rank: 4
Hayao Miyazaki
1941 - Present
HPI: 84.84
Rank: 5
Akira Kurosawa
1910 - 1998
HPI: 84.43
Rank: 6
Roman Polanski
1933 - Present
HPI: 83.85
Rank: 7
Ingmar Bergman
1918 - 2007
HPI: 83.84
Rank: 8
Federico Fellini
1920 - 1993
HPI: 83.59
Rank: 9
Woody Allen
1935 - Present
HPI: 82.76
Rank: 10
Sergei Eisenstein
1898 - 1948
HPI: 81.70
Rank: 11
Sergio Leone
1929 - 1989
HPI: 81.54
Rank: 12
Francis Ford Coppola
1939 - Present
HPI: 81.12
Rank: 13
Andrei Tarkovsky
1932 - 1986
HPI: 81.03
Rank: 14
Pier Paolo Pasolini
1922 - 1975
HPI: 80.92
Rank: 15
Ridley Scott
1937 - Present
HPI: 80.70
Rank: 16

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Woody Allen ranks 5. Before him are Elvis Presley, Alain Delon, 14th Dalai Lama, and Luciano Pavarotti. After him are Salman of Saudi Arabia, José Mujica, Mahmoud Abbas, Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, Donald Sutherland, Michel Aoun, and Hussein of Jordan.

Others Born in 1935

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Elvis Presley
1935 - 1977
HPI: 88.09
Rank: 1
Alain Delon
1935 - Present
HPI: 85.85
Rank: 2
14th Dalai Lama
1935 - Present
HPI: 85.27
Rank: 3
Luciano Pavarotti
1935 - 2007
HPI: 84.55
Rank: 4
Woody Allen
1935 - Present
HPI: 82.76
Rank: 5
Salman of Saudi Arabia
1935 - Present
HPI: 82.55
Rank: 6
José Mujica
1935 - Present
HPI: 80.38
Rank: 7
Mahmoud Abbas
1935 - Present
HPI: 79.83
Rank: 8
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank
1935 - Present
HPI: 78.77
Rank: 9
Donald Sutherland
1935 - Present
HPI: 78.63
Rank: 10
Michel Aoun
1935 - Present
HPI: 78.29
Rank: 11
Hussein of Jordan
1935 - 1999
HPI: 77.75
Rank: 12