FILM DIRECTOR

Edmund Goulding

1891 - 1959

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Edmund Goulding (20 March 1891 – 24 December 1959) was a British screenwriter and film director. As an actor early in his career he was one of the 'Ghosts' in the 1922 silent film Three Live Ghosts alongside Norman Kerry and Cyril Chadwick. Also in the early 1920s he wrote several screenplays for star Mae Murray for films directed by her then husband Robert Z. Leonard. Goulding is best remembered for directing cultured dramas such as Love (1927), Grand Hotel (1932) with Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford, Dark Victory (1939) with Bette Davis, The Constant Nymph (1943) with Joan Fontaine, and The Razor's Edge (1946) with Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edmund Goulding is the 787th most popular film director (up from 809th in 2019), the 3,112th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,827th in 2019) and the 61st most popular British Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Edmund Goulding ranks 787 out of 2,041. Before him are Richard Oswald, Laura Mulvey, Eli Roth, Stuart Rosenberg, Fatih Akin, and Riccardo Freda. After him are Sean S. Cunningham, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, David Miller, Robert Towne, Wolfgang Staudte, and George Marshall.

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Among people born in 1891, Edmund Goulding ranks 181. Before him are Erich Marcks, Hugo Lahtinen, Yevgeny Polivanov, Miguel Pro, David Sarnoff, and Hans von Funck. After him are George Marshall, Alfred Neubauer, Mariano Ospina Pérez, William F. Albright, Ferdinand Bruckner, and Alfred Sturtevant. Among people deceased in 1959, Edmund Goulding ranks 122. Before him are Boughera El Ouafi, Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, Ragnar Nurkse, Molla Mallory, Boris Eikhenbaum, and Heleno de Freitas. After him are Charles Starkweather, Felix Jacoby, Albert Namatjira, Nicholas Charnetsky, Alfonso Reyes, and Carl Enckell.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edmund Goulding ranks 3,113 out of 8,785. Before him are Hermione Baddeley (1906), Lewis Capaldi (1996), Nicholas Hoult (1989), Ashley Cole (1980), James Douglas, Lord of Douglas (1286), and Andrew Marvell (1621). After him are Peter Pears (1910), Martin Parr (1952), Terence O'Neill (1914), Henry Raeburn (1756), Israel Zangwill (1864), and Alexander Dalrymple (1737).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Edmund Goulding ranks 61. Before him are Terence Fisher (1904), Matthew Vaughn (1971), Norman McLaren (1914), Paul Greengrass (1955), Gareth Edwards (1975), and Laura Mulvey (1941). After him are Jonathan Glazer (1965), Richard Marquand (1937), Jack Cardiff (1914), Jack Clayton (1921), Stephen Daldry (1960), and Mick Jackson (1943).

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