FILM DIRECTOR

Marcel L'Herbier

1888 - 1979

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Marcel L'Herbier (French: [lɛʁbje]; 23 April 1888 – 26 November 1979) was a French filmmaker who achieved prominence as an avant-garde theorist and imaginative practitioner with a series of silent films in the 1920s. His career as a director continued until the 1950s and he made more than 40 feature films in total. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked on cultural programmes for French television. He also fulfilled many administrative roles in the French film industry, and he was the founder and the first President of the French film school Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marcel L'Herbier is the 562nd most popular film director (down from 545th in 2019), the 3,055th most popular biography from France (down from 2,957th in 2019) and the 84th most popular French Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Marcel L'Herbier ranks 562 out of 2,041. Before him are Gene Deitch, Michel Audiard, Tonino Delli Colli, Martin Brest, Paul W. S. Anderson, and James Mangold. After him are Uli Edel, Michael Ritchie, Sergei Yutkevich, Rob Cohen, Yakov Protazanov, and Georges Lautner.

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Among people born in 1888, Marcel L'Herbier ranks 115. Before him are Harilal Gandhi, Carl Hilpert, Archduke Karl Albrecht of Austria, James Waddell Alexander II, Sophus Nielsen, and Kaarel Eenpalu. After him are Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Archduchess Isabella of Austria, Josef Beran, Hans Graf von Sponeck, Friedrich Wolf, and Sigfried Giedion. Among people deceased in 1979, Marcel L'Herbier ranks 111. Before him are Arno Schmidt, Carl Laemmle Jr., Ita Rina, Fulton J. Sheen, Leonid Bykov, and Aleksei N. Leontiev. After him are August Heissmeyer, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, James J. Gibson, Georges Florovsky, Jack Haley, and Ernest B. Schoedsack.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marcel L'Herbier ranks 3,055 out of 6,770. Before him are Guiraut Riquier (1230), Félix Gaillard (1919), Henri Helle (1873), Émilie de Villeneuve (1811), André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819), and Henri Laurens (1885). After him are Charles Percier (1764), Jean-Louis Forain (1852), Nasreddine Dinet (1861), Pierre Vernier (1580), Raymond Sommer (1906), and Louis Buffet (1818).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Marcel L'Herbier ranks 84. Before him are Claude Autant-Lara (1901), Ariane Mnouchkine (1939), André Hunebelle (1896), René Laloux (1929), Ferdinand Zecca (1864), and Michel Audiard (1920). After him are Georges Lautner (1926), Gérard Krawczyk (1953), Jean-Paul Rappeneau (1932), Robert Enrico (1931), Jean-Daniel Cadinot (1944), and Maurice Tourneur (1876).

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