FILM DIRECTOR

Juraj Herz

1934 - 2018

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Juraj Herz (4 September 1934 – 8 April 2018) was a Slovak film director, actor, and scene designer, associated with the Czechoslovak New Wave movement of the 1960s. He is best known for his 1969 horror/black comedy The Cremator, often cited as one of the best Czechoslovak films of all time, though many of his other films achieved cult status. He directed for both film and television, and in the latter capacity he directed episodes of a French-Czech television series based on George Simenon's Maigret novels. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Juraj Herz is the 623rd most popular film director (up from 641st in 2019), the 110th most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 104th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Slovak Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Juraj Herz ranks 623 out of 2,041. Before him are Henning Carlsen, Mario Camerini, Im Kwon-taek, Lawrence Kasdan, Paul Thomas Anderson, and John Stagliano. After him are Oskar Fischinger, Peter Hyams, Lewis Gilbert, Carmine Gallone, Sergei Bodrov, and Paul Mazursky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Juraj Herz ranks 224. Before him are Vladimir Posner, Savely Kramarov, Dida, Vicar, Gyoji Matsumoto, and Ronald Harwood. After him are Aram Tigran, Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab, Oleg Kalugin, Horst Szymaniak, Ilaria Occhini, and Julio Jiménez. Among people deceased in 2018, Juraj Herz ranks 189. Before him are Lydia Clarke, Edgar Hilsenrath, Claribel Alegría, Juan Bautista Agüero, Stan Mikita, and Evelyn Berezin. After him are Lewis Gilbert, Penny Marshall, Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab, Trần Đại Quang, Robert Morris, and Ara Güler.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Juraj Herz ranks 110 out of 418. Before him are Pavol Molnár (1936), Dušan Uhrin (1943), Stan Mikita (1940), Ruzena Bajcsy (1933), Matthias Bel (1684), and Juraj Haulik (1788). After him are János Pálffy (1664), Frederick Stafford (1928), Maroš Šefčovič (1966), Géza von Radványi (1907), Günther Beck von Mannagetta und Lerchenau (1856), and Zoltán Halmay (1881).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Slovakia

Among film directors born in Slovakia, Juraj Herz ranks 3. Before him are Ivan Reitman (1946), and Juraj Jakubisko (1938). After him are Géza von Radványi (1907), Jaromil Jireš (1935), Štefan Uher (1930), and Péter Bacsó (1928).

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