FILM DIRECTOR

Michel Deville

1931 - 2023

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Michel Deville (13 April 1931 – 16 February 2023) was a French film director and screenwriter. Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors. He never achieved the level of critical and international recognition of some of his contemporaries such as François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol, possibly because of his more conventional filmmaking style. Nevertheless, his films, especially his comedies from the 1970s and 1980s, were popular in his native France. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michel Deville is the 657th most popular film director (down from 635th in 2019), the 3,463rd most popular biography from France (down from 3,320th in 2019) and the 92nd most popular French Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Michel Deville ranks 657 out of 2,041. Before him are Paul Grimault, Artavazd Peleshyan, Baz Luhrmann, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Corey Yuen, and Daniel Schmid. After him are Robert Z. Leonard, Nancy Meyers, John Farrow, Michel Hazanavicius, Anthony Asquith, and Ulrich Seidl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Michel Deville ranks 249. Before him are León Febres Cordero, Galina Zybina, Bernard Panafieu, Jean Béliveau, Yulian Semyonov, and Mino De Rossi. After him are José Alencar, Willie Mays, Richard Ratsimandrava, Hana Brady, David Wilkerson, and David Cooper. Among people deceased in 2023, Michel Deville ranks 230. Before him are Alma Adamkienė, Kenneth Anger, Carmen Sevilla, Bobby Hull, Telesphore Toppo, and Joss Ackland. After him are Princess Marie Gabrielle of Luxembourg, Mikio Sato, Karl-Josef Rauber, Salif Keïta, Barry Newman, and Tapley Seaton.

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In France

Among people born in France, Michel Deville ranks 3,463 out of 6,770. Before him are Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys (1805), Robert Planquette (1848), Michel Blanc (1952), Pierre Bachelet (1944), Gérard Blain (1930), and Augustin-Alexandre Dumont (1801). After him are Jean Effel (1908), Georges Mandel (1885), Daniel Guérin (1904), Philippe Cattiau (1892), Nicolas Baudin (1754), and Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin (1860).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Michel Deville ranks 92. Before him are Gérard Krawczyk (1953), Jean-Paul Rappeneau (1932), Robert Enrico (1931), Jean-Daniel Cadinot (1944), Maurice Tourneur (1876), and Paul Grimault (1905). After him are Michel Hazanavicius (1967), Claude Miller (1942), Georges Franju (1912), Claude Pinoteau (1925), Bruno Nuytten (1945), and Benoît Jacquot (1947).

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