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Pierre Étaix

1928 - 2016

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Pierre Étaix (French: [etɛks]; 23 November 1928 – 14 October 2016) was a French clown, comedian and filmmaker. Étaix made a series of short- and feature-length films, many of them co-written by influential screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière. He won an Academy Award for best live action short film in 1963. Due to a legal dispute with a distribution company, his films were unavailable from the 1970s until 2009. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Étaix is the 3,090th most popular actor (down from 2,332nd in 2019), the 3,651st most popular biography from France (down from 3,108th in 2019) and the 204th most popular French Actor.

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Among actors, Pierre Étaix ranks 3,090 out of 13,578. Before him are Jan Decleir, David Hedison, Roy Rogers, Brian Keith, Patricia Kennedy Lawford, and Charlie Hunnam. After him are Catherine Schell, Paula Kelly, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Todd Armstrong, Sonam Kapoor, and Tony Randall.

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Among people born in 1928, Pierre Étaix ranks 295. Before him are Tahir Salahov, Kevin Hagen, Gerald Bull, Flóra Kádár, Estelle Harris, and Edgar Schein. After him are Emilio Pericoli, Robert Byrne, Eugenio Monti, Eve Meyer, Jorge Ibargüengoitia, and Jürgen Moser. Among people deceased in 2016, Pierre Étaix ranks 245. Before him are Jan Němec, Jamshid Amouzegar, Jiří Tichý, Doris Roberts, Harald Grønningen, and Marc Riboud. After him are Brigitte Hamann, Ursula Franklin, Banharn Silpa-archa, Pierre Barouh, Juan Mujica, and Aurèle Nicolet.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Étaix ranks 3,651 out of 6,770. Before him are Ferdinand Brunetière (1849), Jean-Baptiste Du Halde (1674), Charles Dancla (1817), Christian Marin (1929), Marc Riboud (1923), and Henri Laurent (1881). After him are Jacques Herbrand (1908), Charles Renard (1847), Edmond de Sélys Longchamps (1813), Louis-Marie Billé (1938), Jules Émile Planchon (1823), and Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (1883).

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Among ACTORS In France

Among actors born in France, Pierre Étaix ranks 204. Before him are Dany Robin (1927), Pascal Greggory (1954), Pierre Fresnay (1897), Paulette Dubost (1910), Jean Yanne (1933), and Christian Marin (1929). After him are Georges Descrières (1930), Pascale Petit (1938), Pierre Barouh (1934), Gaspard Ulliel (1984), Georges Marchal (1920), and Catherine Frot (1956).

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