FILM DIRECTOR

Jan Němec

1936 - 2016

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Jan Němec (12 July 1936 – 18 March 2016) was a Czech filmmaker whose most important work dates from the 1960s. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Němec is the 700th most popular film director (up from 857th in 2019), the 452nd most popular biography from Czechia (up from 516th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Czech Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jan Němec ranks 700 out of 2,041Before him are Rob Marshall, Jack Bender, Andrew Birkin, John Glen, Wojciech Has, and František Čáp. After him are Hans Hass, Stanislav Govorukhin, Johnnie To, George Seaton, Bruno Nuytten, and Bob Gale.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Jan Němec ranks 277Before him are Walter Lewin, Henck Arron, Edward Feigenbaum, Antonin Scalia, Feliciano Rivilla, and Toralf Engan. After him are Stanislav Govorukhin, Jan Tříska, Anton Allemann, Edvard Radzinsky, Saburō Kawabuchi, and Igor Rodionov. Among people deceased in 2016, Jan Němec ranks 239Before him are Antonin Scalia, Arnold Palmer, Roberto Perfumo, Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores, Slobodan Santrač, and Zoltán Kocsis. After him are Jamshid Amouzegar, Jiří Tichý, Doris Roberts, Harald Grønningen, Marc Riboud, and Pierre Étaix.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jan Němec ranks 452 out of 1,200Before him are Rudolf Charousek (1873), Johann Radon (1887), Marek Jankulovski (1977), František Čáp (1913), Princess Adelaide of Schaumburg-Lippe (1875), and Josef Košťálek (1909). After him are Maria Jeritza (1887), Franziskus von Paula Graf von Schönborn (1844), Jan Tříska (1936), Bohumil Kubišta (1884), Václav Brožík (1851), and Jan Werich (1906).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Czechia

Among film directors born in Czechia, Jan Němec ranks 13Before him are Jiří Trnka (1912), Karel Reisz (1926), Václav Vorlíček (1930), Otakar Vávra (1911), Karl Freund (1890), and František Čáp (1913). After him are Karel Lamač (1897), Ivan Passer (1933), Elmar Klos (1910), Vojtěch Jasný (1925), František Vláčil (1924), and Harun Farocki (1944).