FILM DIRECTOR

Mike Hodges

1932 - 2022

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Michael Tommy Hodges (29 July 1932 – 17 December 2022) was an English film and television director, screenwriter, playwright and novelist. After varied work on television, he made his feature film directing debut with the crime thriller Get Carter (1971), which was a critical and commercial success and was voted one of the BFI Top 100 British films. His subsequent works included the comic thriller Pulp (1972), the sci-fi horror film The Terminal Man (1974), the superhero film Flash Gordon (1980), and the neo-noir Croupier (1998). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2024). Mike Hodges is the 1,458th most popular film director (down from 1,370th in 2024), the 5,171st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,684th in 2019) and the 108th most popular British Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Mike Hodges ranks 1,458 out of 2,041. Before him are Catherine Corsini, Sally Menke, Peter Zadek, Niels Arden Oplev, Lee Garmes, and Bryan Forbes. After him are Chloé Zhao, Alan Taylor, Stefano Sollima, Josef Fares, Robert Schwentke, and Joseph Kosinski.

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Among people born in 1932, Mike Hodges ranks 502. Before him are Inga Swenson, Abby Dalton, Sheree North, Roger Smith, Prunella Scales, and Lou Jones. After him are Anatoli Isayev, Poul Pedersen, Djibril Tamsir Niane, Kiril Rakarov, Kurt Schmid, and Mikhail Ogonkov. Among people deceased in 2022, Mike Hodges ranks 568. Before him are Jürgen Sundermann, Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek, Gerhard Roth, Dorothy E. Smith, Raymond Briggs, and Bjarni Tryggvason. After him are Rodney Stark, Naomi Judd, Javier Cárdenas, Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga, Txetxu Rojo, and Lenny Von Dohlen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mike Hodges ranks 5,173 out of 8,785. Before him are John Garstang (1876), Howard Kendall (1946), Justin Hayward (1946), Peter Cook (1936), Bryan Forbes (1926), and William Bell Scott (1811). After him are Dan Crenshaw (1984), Tom Bridger (1934), Simone Ashley (1995), Samuel Plimsoll (1824), Stanley Sadie (1930), and Heather Angel (1909).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Mike Hodges ranks 108. Before him are Douglas Slocombe (1913), Peter Hall (1930), Chris Menges (1940), Michael Winterbottom (1961), Jonathan Lynn (1943), and Bryan Forbes (1926). After him are Terence Davies (1945), A. Edward Sutherland (1895), Richard Eyre (1943), Adrian Biddle (1952), Stuart Baird (1947), and Clive Donner (1926).

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