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Don Bluth

1937 - Today

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Donald Virgil Bluth ( BLOOTH; born September 13, 1937) is an American filmmaker, animator, video game designer and author. He came to prominence working for Walt Disney Productions before creating his own film studio in the early 1980s. Bluth is best known for directing the animated films The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, The Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven, and Anastasia, and for his involvement in the well-known Laserdisc game Dragon's Lair. Don Bluth Productions hired many animators away from Disney, and Bluth's films were a major competitor to Disney in the 1980s, leading up to the Disney Renaissance. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Don Bluth is the 514th most popular film director (down from 444th in 2019), the 3,804th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,817th in 2019) and the 138th most popular American Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Don Bluth ranks 514 out of 2,041. Before him are Richard Thorpe, Renny Harlin, Werner Schroeter, Glauber Rocha, Ján Kadár, and Mike Leigh. After him are Louis Feuillade, Michel Gondry, Mika Kaurismäki, Grigori Aleksandrov, Fernando Solanas, and Gerard Damiano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Don Bluth ranks 182. Before him are Manga, Paolo Bonacelli, Jay Rockefeller, Cornelis Vreeswijk, Monica Zetterlund, and Seymour Hersh. After him are Maria Teresa Horta, Valentin Bondarenko, Giovanni Arrighi, Maryan Wisniewski, Gustavo Noboa, and Anna Hazare.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Don Bluth ranks 3,804 out of 20,380. Before him are Eric Schmidt (1955), Dermot Mulroney (1963), Richard Beymer (1938), Arthur Cronquist (1919), Robert Wisdom (1953), and Robert Weinberg (1942). After him are Chloë Grace Moretz (1997), Andy Weir (1972), Florence Owens Thompson (1903), Jim Bausch (1906), Ignacio Zaragoza (1829), and Stephen Kovacevich (1940).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Don Bluth ranks 138. Before him are Sam Wood (1883), Richard Lester (1932), Nick Castle (1947), J. J. Abrams (1966), Clarence Brown (1890), and Richard Thorpe (1896). After him are Gerard Damiano (1928), John Milius (1944), Taylor Hackford (1944), Philip Kaufman (1936), Delmer Daves (1904), and Gene Deitch (1924).

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