FILM DIRECTOR

Bo Widerberg

1930 - 1997

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Bo Gunnar Widerberg (Swedish: [ˈbuː ˈvîːdɛrbærj]; 8 June 1930 – 1 May 1997) was a Swedish film director, screenwriter, film editor and actor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2024). Bo Widerberg is the 424th most popular film director (up from 434th in 2024), the 320th most popular biography from Sweden and the 6th most popular Swedish Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Bo Widerberg ranks 424 out of 2,041. Before him are Denys Arcand, Karel Reisz, Saul Bass, John Guillermin, Christian-Jaque, and Hirokazu Kore-eda. After him are Sofia Coppola, J. Lee Thompson, Michael Apted, Mikio Naruse, Richard Boleslawski, and Sergiu Nicolaescu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Bo Widerberg ranks 171. Before him are Oleg Popov, Franzl Lang, Manuel Marulanda, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, Harold Bloom, and Marion Zimmer Bradley. After him are Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, Sergiu Nicolaescu, Pyotr Bolotnikov, Katherine Jackson, and Julián Herranz Casado. Among people deceased in 1997, Bo Widerberg ranks 97. Before him are Giuseppe De Santis, Jean-Dominique Bauby, Francisco Aramburu, François Furet, Martin Schwarzschild, and Lyman Spitzer. After him are Jambyn Batmönkh, Chiang Wei-kuo, Allan Edwall, Peng Zhen, Félix Candela, and Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr..

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Bo Widerberg ranks 320 out of 1,879. Before him are Elizabeth Hesselblad (1870), Eli Heckscher (1879), Lars Fredrik Nilson (1840), Arvid Lindman (1862), Daniel Solander (1733), and Eva Dahlbeck (1920). After him are Erik Dahlbergh (1625), Fredrik Reinfeldt (1965), Per Wahlöö (1926), Håkan Nesser (1950), John, Duke of Östergötland (1589), and Lennart Skoglund (1929).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Sweden

Among film directors born in Sweden, Bo Widerberg ranks 6. Before him are Ingmar Bergman (1918), Lasse Hallström (1946), Victor Sjöström (1879), Roy Andersson (1943), and Sven Nykvist (1922). After him are Alf Sjöberg (1903), Jan Troell (1931), Vilgot Sjöman (1924), Olle Hellbom (1925), Johan Renck (1966), and Ruben Östlund (1974).

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