FILM DIRECTOR

Menahem Golan

1929 - 2014

Photo of Menahem Golan

Icon of person Menahem Golan

Menahem Golan (Hebrew: מנחם גולן; May 31, 1929 – August 8, 2014, originally Menachem Globus) was an Israeli film producer, screenwriter, and director. He co-owned The Cannon Group with his cousin Yoram Globus. Cannon specialized in producing low-to-mid-budget American films, primarily genre films, during the 1980s after Golan and Globus had achieved significant filmmaking success in Israel during the 1970s. Golan produced films featuring actors such as Sean Connery, Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Charles Bronson, and for a period, was known as a producer of comic book-style films like Masters of the Universe, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Captain America, and his aborted attempt to bring Spider-Man to the silver screen. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Menahem Golan is the 336th most popular film director (down from 258th in 2019), the 149th most popular biography from Israel (down from 140th in 2019) and the most popular Israeli Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Menahem Golan by language

Loading...

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Menahem Golan ranks 336 out of 2,041. Before him are Chen Kaige, Joseph Losey, Norman Jewison, Steven Soderbergh, Luigi Comencini, and Tex Avery. After him are Darren Aronofsky, Jacques Feyder, Hideaki Anno, Satoshi Kon, Ub Iwerks, and Jean Girault.

Most Popular Film Directors in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Menahem Golan ranks 134. Before him are Édouard Balladur, Zillur Rahman, Alain Tanner, Anastasios of Albania, Fred Phelps, and Fazlur Rahman Khan. After him are Dina bint Abdul-Hamid, Betty Boothroyd, Jaakko Hintikka, Darío Castrillón Hoyos, Charles Moore, and Vladimír Menšík. Among people deceased in 2014, Menahem Golan ranks 100. Before him are Valeri Kubasov, Christopher Jones, Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, Jack Bruce, Fred Phelps, and Run Run Shaw. After him are Joan Rivers, Mário Coluna, Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Riz Ortolani, Sabah, and Elizabeth Peña.

Others Born in 1929

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 2014

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Menahem Golan ranks 149 out of 466. Before him are Dan Shechtman (1941), Ali Hassan Salameh (1940), Israel Tal (1924), Zahir al-Umar (1689), Angelus of Jerusalem (1185), and Procopius of Scythopolis (250). After him are Sarah Aaronsohn (1890), Naftali Bennett (1972), Lusius Quietus (100), Amos Tversky (1937), Eutocius of Ascalon (480), and Wadie Haddad (1927).

Others born in Israel

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Israel

Among film directors born in Israel, Menahem Golan ranks 1. After him are Assi Dayan (1945), Amos Gitai (1950), Ralph Bakshi (1938), Avi Arad (1948), Ari Folman (1962), Elia Suleiman (1960), Hany Abu-Assad (1961), Samuel Maoz (1962), Oren Peli (1970), and Etan Cohen (1974).

Israeli born Film Directors

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous