FILM DIRECTOR

Woody Allen

1935 - Today

Woody Allen

Heywood "Woody" Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American director, writer, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades and multiple Academy Award-winning movies. He began his career as a comedy writer on Sid Caesar's comedy variety program, Your Show of Shows, working alongside Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Larry Gelbart and Neil Simon. He also began writing material for television, published several books featuring short stories, and writing humor pieces for The New Yorker. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Woody Allen has received more than 14,691,869 page views. His biography is available in 103 different languages on Wikipedia making him the 8th most popular film director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 15M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 76.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 103

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Filmography

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Woody Allen ranks 8 out of 1,305. Before him are Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, and Hayao Miyazaki. After him are Sergei Eisenstein, Roman Polanski, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sergio Leone, Francis Ford Coppola, and Ridley Scott.

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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, Hussein of Jordan, Julie Andrews, and Arvo Pärt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Woody Allen ranks 71 out of 12,171. Before him are George W. Bush (1946), Bob Dylan (1941), John Dewey (1859), Madonna (1958), John Steinbeck (1902), and Samuel Morse (1791). After him are Theodore Roosevelt (1858), Jimi Hendrix (1942), Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929), Louis Armstrong (1901), John D. Rockefeller (1839), and James Dean (1931).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Woody Allen ranks 3. Before him are Steven Spielberg (1946) and Stanley Kubrick (1928). After him are Francis Ford Coppola (1939), Martin Scorsese (1942), George Lucas (1944), John Ford (1894), Quentin Tarantino (1963), David Lynch (1946), Tim Burton (1958), Sydney Pollack (1934), and Brian De Palma (1940).

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