FILM DIRECTOR

Raoul Servais

1928 - 2023

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Raoul Servais (1 May 1928 – 17 March 2023) was a Belgian filmmaker, animator and comics artist. He was born in Ostend, Belgium, and is a fundamental figure of the Belgian animation scene, as well as the founder of the animation faculty of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK). Servais was best known for the animated film, Harpya, for which he won a Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. Servais received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb in 2016. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Raoul Servais is the 774th most popular film director (down from 649th in 2019), the 528th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 456th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Belgian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Raoul Servais ranks 774 out of 2,041. Before him are Pierre Granier-Deferre, Max Fleischer, Budd Boetticher, Rintaro, Rudolph Maté, and Mamoru Hosoda. After him are André Roosevelt, Giuseppe Rotunno, Friz Freleng, Gianfranco Parolini, Timothy Treadwell, and Joshua Logan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Raoul Servais ranks 318. Before him are Morihiro Saito, Peter Carsten, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Paul Johnson, Marion Ross, and Robert Dienst. After him are Jim Rathmann, Umberto Maglioli, Charles Gray, Joan Martí i Alanis, António Ribeiro, and Art Farmer. Among people deceased in 2023, Raoul Servais ranks 268. Before him are Pat McCormick, Klaus Teuber, Renate Boy, Reino Börjesson, Paul Johnson, and Johan Leysen. After him are Angel Wagenstein, John Zizioulas, Christian Atsu, Terry Venables, M. S. Swaminathan, and Wilferd Madelung.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Raoul Servais ranks 528 out of 1,190. Before him are Cécile de France (1975), Jean-Baptiste Janssens (1889), Jean Van Houtte (1907), Katherine Swynford (1350), Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (1794), and Johan Leysen (1950). After him are Benoît Poelvoorde (1964), Lorenzo Staelens (1964), Joos van Craesbeeck (1605), William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford (1020), Henri Jaspar (1870), and Pierre de Decker (1812).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Belgium

Among film directors born in Belgium, Raoul Servais ranks 6. Before him are Agnès Varda (1928), Chantal Akerman (1950), Jacques Feyder (1885), André Delvaux (1926), and Jaco Van Dormael (1957). After him are Ulu Grosbard (1929), Gérard Corbiau (1941), Benoît Lamy (1945), Felix van Groeningen (1977), Lukas Dhont (1991), and Joachim Lafosse (1975).

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