FILM DIRECTOR

Chris Marker

1921 - 2012

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Chris Marker (French: [maʁkɛʁ]; 29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012) (born Christian-François Bouche-Villeneuve) was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La Jetée (1962), A Grin Without a Cat (1977) and Sans Soleil (1983). Marker is usually associated with the Left Bank subset of the French New Wave that occurred in the late 1950s and 1960s, and included such other filmmakers as Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy. His friend and sometime collaborator Alain Resnais called him "the prototype of the twenty-first-century man." Film theorist Roy Armes has said of him: "Marker is unclassifiable because he is unique... Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Chris Marker is the 248th most popular film director (down from 224th in 2019), the 1,567th most popular biography from France (down from 1,438th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular French Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Chris Marker ranks 248 out of 2,041. Before him are Nicholas Ray, Thea von Harbou, Joe D'Amato, Bertrand Tavernier, James Foley, and Patrice Chéreau. After him are Paolo Sorrentino, Nagisa Oshima, Michael Moore, Lucio Fulci, Henry Hathaway, and Anatole Litvak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Chris Marker ranks 94. Before him are Giovanni Benelli, Louis Jourdan, Stanley Ho, Philippe de Gaulle, Herschel Grynszpan, and Mario Lanza. After him are Yuri Nikulin, Paul Schäfer, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Françoise Gilot, Dirk Bogarde, and Raymond Goethals. Among people deceased in 2012, Chris Marker ranks 81. Before him are Chavela Vargas, Ben Gazzara, Chaleo Yoovidhya, Helmut Haller, Hans Werner Henze, and Harry Harrison. After him are Sergey Sokolov, Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Assef Shawkat, Haji Mohammad Chamkani, Herbert Lom, and Paul L. Smith.

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In France

Among people born in France, Chris Marker ranks 1,567 out of 6,770. Before him are Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine (1609), Marguerite Louise d'Orléans (1645), Antoine Busnois (1430), Maria Francisca of Savoy (1646), Richardis (840), and Alain Juppé (1945). After him are La Voisin (1640), Joseph Avenol (1879), Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817), Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (1464), Honoré d'Urfé (1567), and Guy de Chauliac (1300).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Chris Marker ranks 33. Before him are Alice Guy-Blaché (1873), Jacques Demy (1931), Bertrand Blier (1939), Julien Duvivier (1896), Bertrand Tavernier (1941), and Patrice Chéreau (1944). After him are Jacques Becker (1906), Claude Sautet (1924), Philippe de Broca (1933), Frank Darabont (1959), François Ozon (1967), and Jeannot Szwarc (1937).

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