FILM DIRECTOR

Aleksander Ford

1908 - 1980

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Aleksander Ford (born Mosze Lifszyc; 24 November 1908 in Kiev, Russian Empire – 4 April 1980 in Naples, Florida, U.S.) was a Polish film director and head of the Polish People's Army Film Crew in the Soviet Union during World War II. Following the war, he was appointed director of the Film Polski company. In 1948 he was appointed a professor of the National Film School in Łódź (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa). Roman Polanski and Polish film director Andrzej Wajda were among his students. Amid an anti-Semitic purge in the communist party in Poland, Ford was stopped from preparing a film on the life of a Jewish educator. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Aleksander Ford is the 903rd most popular film director (down from 816th in 2019), the 655th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 608th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Ukrainian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Aleksander Ford ranks 903 out of 2,041. Before him are Uwe Boll, Vladimir Gardin, Ennio de Concini, Jamie Uys, Rosa von Praunheim, and Marc Forster. After him are Piotr Szulkin, Erika Lust, Wanda Jakubowska, Philippe Rousselot, Yoshishige Yoshida, and Nicolas Winding Refn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Aleksander Ford ranks 246. Before him are Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, Louis Hostin, George Pal, Kenji Miyamoto, Hugo Distler, and Percy Faith. After him are Gotthard Handrick, Louis Jordan, George Simpson, Renzo Rossellini, Vladimir Kotelnikov, and Franco Rol. Among people deceased in 1980, Aleksander Ford ranks 195. Before him are George Pal, Juan García Oliver, Heikki Liimatainen, Jijé, Mia May, and Jóhann Hafstein. After him are Zezé Procópio, Jacob Talmon, Maurice Genevoix, Pedro Vallana, Alexander Nesmeyanov, and Rostislav Alexeyev.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Aleksander Ford ranks 655 out of 1,365. Before him are Volodymyr Groysman (1978), Nadezhda Tkachenko (1948), Ivan Martos (1754), Sergey Kozlov (1963), Emma Andijewska (1931), and Ostap Vyshnya (1889). After him are Shura Cherkassky (1909), Yevhen Arzhanov (1948), Anatoly Kuznetsov (1929), Anatoliy Konkov (1949), Petro Grigorenko (1907), and Mieczysław Horszowski (1892).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Ukraine

Among film directors born in Ukraine, Aleksander Ford ranks 18. Before him are Les Kurbas (1887), Aleksei Kapler (1904), Yuri Ilyenko (1936), Roman Karmen (1906), Grigory Chukhray (1921), and Lucian Pintilie (1933). After him are Mark Donskoy (1901), Frederic Zelnik (1885), Pyotr Todorovsky (1925), David Cherkassky (1931), Roman Viktyuk (1936), and Konstantin Lopushansky (1947).

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