FILM DIRECTOR

Arnold Fanck

1889 - 1974

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Arnold Fanck (6 March 1889 – 28 September 1974) was a German film director and pioneer of the mountain film genre. He is best known for the extraordinary alpine footage he captured in such films as The Holy Mountain (1926), The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929), Storm over Mont Blanc (1930), The White Ecstasy (1931), and S.O.S. Eisberg (1933). Fanck was also instrumental in launching the careers of several filmmakers during the Weimar years in Germany, including Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker, and cinematographers Sepp Allgeier, Richard Angst, Hans Schneeberger, and Walter Riml. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arnold Fanck is the 612th most popular film director (up from 622nd in 2019), the 3,287th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,318th in 2019) and the 29th most popular German Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Arnold Fanck ranks 612 out of 2,041. Before him are John Badham, Charles Vidor, Jörn Donner, Abel Ferrara, Stan Winston, and Gore Verbinski. After him are King Hu, Luca Guadagnino, Thelma Schoonmaker, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Henning Carlsen, and Mario Camerini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Arnold Fanck ranks 137. Before him are Vasiliy Ulrikh, Jānis K. Bērziņš, Bernhard Karlgren, Azem Galica, Pavel Dybenko, and Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro. After him are Joseph Laniel, G. M. B. Dobson, Edith Tolkien, Shigeyoshi Inoue, Lord Leopold Mountbatten, and Laureano Gómez. Among people deceased in 1974, Arnold Fanck ranks 117. Before him are Bud Abbott, Sucheta Kriplani, Emil Väre, Earl Warren, Mikheil Chiaureli, and Arnaud Denjoy. After him are Anna Q. Nilsson, Ken Myers, Robert Hugo, Duke of Parma, Silvio Moser, Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar, and Pink Anderson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Arnold Fanck ranks 3,289 out of 7,253. Before him are Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1646), Sigmar Gabriel (1959), Lily Braun (1865), Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1819), Heinrich Scheidemann (1596), and Enno III, Count of East Frisia (1563). After him are Sibylle of Saxony (1515), Hermann Conring (1606), Hans Freudenthal (1905), Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (1826), Ursula Kuczynski (1907), and Dorothea of Brandenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg (1420).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Arnold Fanck ranks 29. Before him are Werner Schroeter (1945), Alexander Kluge (1932), Oliver Hirschbiegel (1957), Uli Edel (1947), Henry Koster (1905), and Tom Tykwer (1965). After him are Oskar Fischinger (1900), Gustav von Wangenheim (1895), Bernd Eichinger (1949), E. A. Dupont (1891), Percy Adlon (1935), and Herbert Selpin (1904).

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