FILM DIRECTOR

Marcel Carné

1906 - 1996

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Marcel Albert Carné (French: [maʁsɛl albɛʁ kaʁne]; 18 August 1906 – 31 October 1996) was a French film director. A key figure in the poetic realism movement, Carné's best known films include Port of Shadows (1938), Le Jour Se Lève (1939), Les Visiteurs du Soir (1942) and Children of Paradise (1945); the latter has been cited as one of the great films of all time. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marcel Carné is the 155th most popular film director (down from 102nd in 2019), the 1,086th most popular biography from France (down from 798th in 2019) and the 21st most popular French Film Director.

Marcel Carné is most famous for his work as a film director. He is best known for his films "Les Enfants du Paradis" and "Le Jour Se Lève."

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Marcel Carné ranks 155 out of 2,041. Before him are Robert Benton, Erich von Stroheim, Masaki Kobayashi, Alexander Dovzhenko, Lasse Hallström, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. After him are Moustapha Akkad, Don Siegel, Abel Gance, Josef von Sternberg, Peter Weir, and Lewis Milestone.

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Among people born in 1906, Marcel Carné ranks 59. Before him are Marie José of Belgium, Hans Asperger, Philip Johnson, Oleg Antonov, Giuseppe Siri, and Robert E. Howard. After him are Edmond Debeaumarché, Bugsy Siegel, Luis Federico Leloir, J. R. Jayewardene, James Hadley Chase, and Vera Menchik. Among people deceased in 1996, Marcel Carné ranks 41. Before him are Claudette Colbert, Lars Ahlfors, Andreas Papandreou, Geoffrey Wilkinson, Fujiko Fujio, and Masaki Kobayashi. After him are António de Spínola, Helmut Schön, George Davis Snell, Alain Poher, Martin Balsam, and Marianne Bachmeier.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marcel Carné ranks 1,086 out of 6,770. Before him are Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (1480), Antoine Arnauld (1612), Claude Joseph Vernet (1714), Félix d'Herelle (1873), Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749), and Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813). After him are Henri Giraud (1879), Adelaide of Aquitaine (950), Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749), Danielle Darrieux (1917), André-Hercule de Fleury (1653), and Horace Vernet (1789).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Marcel Carné ranks 21. Before him are Jacques Tati (1907), Claude Lelouch (1937), René Clément (1913), Jean-Pierre Melville (1917), Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907), and Jean-Pierre Jeunet (1953). After him are Abel Gance (1889), Louis Malle (1932), Jean Vigo (1905), Claude Lanzmann (1925), Jacques Rivette (1928), and Alice Guy-Blaché (1873).

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