FILM DIRECTOR

Ivan Reitman

1946 - 2022

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Ivan Reitman (; October 27, 1946 – February 12, 2022) was a Canadian film director and producer. He was known for his comedy films, especially in the 1980s and 1990s. Reitman was the owner of The Montecito Picture Company, founded in 1998. Films he directed include Meatballs (1979), Stripes (1981), Ghostbusters (1984), Twins (1988), Ghostbusters II (1989), Kindergarten Cop (1990), Dave (1993), Junior (1994) and Draft Day (2014). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ivan Reitman is the 202nd most popular film director (up from 343rd in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Slovakia (up from 55th in 2019) and the most popular Slovak Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Ivan Reitman ranks 202 out of 2,041Before him are Guillermo del Toro, Danny Boyle, William Friedkin, Lev Kuleshov, Blake Edwards, and Stephen Frears. After him are Barry Levinson, Lina Wertmüller, Roy Andersson, Francesco Rosi, Tony Richardson, and Vsevolod Pudovkin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Ivan Reitman ranks 123Before him are Semion Mogilevich, Michael Czerny, Eugene Levy, Edita Gruberová, Roméo Dallaire, and Kabir Bedi. After him are Fernando Filoni, Jack Horner, Queen Saleha of Brunei, Keith Moon, Ed O'Neill, and Karim Findi. Among people deceased in 2022, Ivan Reitman ranks 74Before him are Arata Isozaki, Mehran Karimi Nasseri, Ichirou Mizuki, Tony Brooks, Frank Drake, and Edward C. Prescott. After him are Jean-Jacques Sempé, James Lovelock, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Siniša Mihajlović, Ricardo Bofill, and Bernard Cribbins.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Ivan Reitman ranks 30 out of 418Before him are Ľudovít Štúr (1815), Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734), Ján Zachara (1928), Pribina (800), Andrej Babiš (1954), and Edita Gruberová (1946). After him are Zuzana Čaputová (1973), Rudolf Schuster (1934), Andrej Hlinka (1864), Milan Hodža (1878), Lajos Batthyány (1807), and Richard Réti (1889).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Slovakia

Among film directors born in Slovakia, Ivan Reitman ranks 1After him are Juraj Jakubisko (1938), Juraj Herz (1934), Géza von Radványi (1907), Jaromil Jireš (1935), Štefan Uher (1930), and Péter Bacsó (1928).