FILM DIRECTOR

Martin Frič

1902 - 1968

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Martin Frič (29 March 1902 – 26 August 1968) was a Czech film director, screenwriter and actor. He had more than 100 directing credits between 1929 and 1968, including feature films, shorts and documentary films. Throughout his life, Frič struggled with alcoholism. On the day of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, he attempted suicide, after battling cancer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Martin Frič is the 992nd most popular film director (up from 1,071st in 2019), the 602nd most popular biography from Czechia (up from 620th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Czech Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Martin Frič ranks 992 out of 2,041. Before him are Randal Kleiser, Lajos Koltai, Elia Suleiman, Ringo Lam, Gérard Corbiau, and Shawn Levy. After him are Helmut Dietl, Matt Reeves, Irwin Allen, Fyodor Khitruk, Rodrigo García, and Xie Jin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Martin Frič ranks 233. Before him are Zaharia Stancu, Milman Parry, Carlos Schneeberger, Sergey Lebedev, Rudolf Viertl, and Manuel Seoane. After him are Giorgio Pessina, André Tassin, Luo Ronghuan, Ethelda Bleibtrey, Jesús Bermúdez, and Edward Condon. Among people deceased in 1968, Martin Frič ranks 186. Before him are Armand Blanchonnet, Weegee, Mervyn Peake, Tim Ahearne, Francis Biddle, and Luigi Cevenini. After him are René Navarre, Kay Francis, Antonio Pietrangeli, Hugo Benioff, Jess Willard, and Astrid Cleve.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Martin Frič ranks 602 out of 1,200. Before him are Jakub Jan Ryba (1765), Alfred Roller (1864), Ivan Olbracht (1882), Jaroslav Holík (1942), John Neumann (1811), and Eliška Krásnohorská (1847). After him are Jiří Skobla (1930), Patrik Ouředník (1957), František Langer (1888), Jan Černý (1874), Tomáš Šmíd (1956), and Wenzel Müller (1767).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Czechia

Among film directors born in Czechia, Martin Frič ranks 24. Before him are František Vláčil (1924), Harun Farocki (1944), Edgar G. Ulmer (1904), Gustav Machatý (1901), Oldřich Lipský (1924), and Karel Kachyňa (1924). After him are Břetislav Pojar (1923), Jiří Weiss (1913), Jan Svěrák (1965), and Jan Hřebejk (1967).

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