FILM DIRECTOR

Fred Zinnemann

1907 - 1997

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Alfred Zinnemann (April 29, 1907 – March 14, 1997) was an Austrian-American film director and producer. He won four Academy Awards for directing and producing films in various genres, including thrillers, westerns, film noir and play adaptations. He began his career in Europe before emigrating to the US, where he specialized in shorts before making 25 feature films during his 50-year career. He was among the first directors to insist on using authentic locations and for mixing stars with non-professional actors to give his films more realism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fred Zinnemann is the 86th most popular film director, the 123rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 111th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Polish Film Director.

Fred Zinnemann is most famous for directing the Academy Award-winning films, "A Man for All Seasons" and "Julia."

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Fred Zinnemann ranks 86 out of 2,041. Before him are Alain Resnais, Franco Zeffirelli, Alan Parker, Robert Bresson, Peter Brook, and Ernst Lubitsch. After him are Howard Hawks, James Ivory, Terry Gilliam, Manoel de Oliveira, Carl Theodor Dreyer, and John Carpenter.

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Among people born in 1907, Fred Zinnemann ranks 31. Before him are Hideki Yukawa, Daniel Bovet, Robert A. Heinlein, Sister Lúcia, François Duvalier, and Lin Biao. After him are Horst Wessel, John Bowlby, U Nu, Giovanna of Italy, Daphne du Maurier, and Jacques Tati. Among people deceased in 1997, Fred Zinnemann ranks 30. Before him are William S. Burroughs, Clyde Tombaugh, Isaiah Berlin, Hans Eysenck, Bohumil Hrabal, and Roy Lichtenstein. After him are Edward Mills Purcell, Alfred Hershey, Allen Ginsberg, Aldo Rossi, Helenio Herrera, and John Eccles.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Fred Zinnemann ranks 123 out of 1,694. Before him are Władysław Sikorski (1881), Arthur Liebehenschel (1901), Alexander Jagiellon (1461), Pola Negri (1897), Alfred von Tirpitz (1849), and Klaus von Klitzing (1943). After him are Karl Ludwig Hencke (1793), Joseph Rotblat (1908), Julia, Princess of Battenberg (1825), Antoni Grabowski (1857), Casimir IV Jagiellon (1427), and Kurt Daluege (1897).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Poland

Among film directors born in Poland, Fred Zinnemann ranks 5. Before him are Billy Wilder (1906), Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941), Andrzej Wajda (1926), and Dziga Vertov (1896). After him are Jerzy Grotowski (1933), Agnieszka Holland (1948), Jerzy Skolimowski (1938), Robert Wiene (1873), Jean Epstein (1897), Jerzy Stuhr (1947), and Krzysztof Zanussi (1939).

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