FILM DIRECTOR

Maurice Tourneur

1876 - 1961

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Maurice Félix Thomas (French pronunciation: [mɔʁis feliks tɔmɑ]; 2 February 1876 – 4 August 1961), known as Maurice Tourneur (pronounced [tuʁnœʁ]), was a French film director and screenwriter. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Maurice Tourneur is the 652nd most popular film director (up from 724th in 2024), the 3,430th most popular biography from France (up from 3,598th in 2019) and the 90th most popular French Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Maurice Tourneur ranks 652 out of 2,041. Before him are Kenneth Anger, Majid Majidi, Roger Donaldson, Paul Scheuring, Richard Linklater, and Roger Spottiswoode. After him are Keisuke Kinoshita, Paul Grimault, Artavazd Peleshyan, Baz Luhrmann, Andrey Zvyagintsev, and Corey Yuen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Maurice Tourneur ranks 112. Before him are Oscar Dessomville, Pantelis Karasevdas, Ahmad Qavam, Konstantinos Demertzis, Maria Ouspenskaya, and Léon-Paul Fargue. After him are Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini, Heinrich Tessenow, Nellie Tayloe Ross, James Kirkwood Sr., Meshadi Azizbekov, and Tiburcio Carías Andino. Among people deceased in 1961, Maurice Tourneur ranks 94. Before him are Luke Voyno-Yasenetsky, Carlos Luz, Kateryna Bilokur, Chester Barnard, Hari Singh, and Chico Marx. After him are Louis Rwagasore, Max Weber, Cuno Amiet, Andrzej Munk, H.D., and Walter Bedell Smith.

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In France

Among people born in France, Maurice Tourneur ranks 3,430 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis Pergaud (1882), Stéphane Peterhansel (1965), François Marius Granet (1775), Jeanne Demessieux (1921), Chiara Mastroianni (1972), and René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou (1714). After him are Frédéric de Lafresnaye (1783), Julie Manet (1878), François Séverin Marceau (1769), Georges Lefebvre (1874), Orlan (1947), and Alphonse de Châteaubriant (1877).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Maurice Tourneur ranks 90. Before him are Marcel L'Herbier (1888), Georges Lautner (1926), Gérard Krawczyk (1953), Jean-Paul Rappeneau (1932), Robert Enrico (1931), and Jean-Daniel Cadinot (1944). After him are Paul Grimault (1905), Michel Deville (1931), Michel Hazanavicius (1967), Claude Miller (1942), Georges Franju (1912), and Claude Pinoteau (1925).

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