FILM DIRECTOR

Vasily Goncharov

1861 - 1915

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Vasily Mikhailovich Goncharov (Russian: Василий Михайлович Гончаров) (1861 – 23 August 1915) was a Russian film director and screenwriter, one of the pioneers of the film industry in the Russian Empire, who directed an early Russian feature film Defence of Sevastopol. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Vasily Goncharov is the 1,421st most popular film director (down from 1,378th in 2024), the 2,316th most popular biography from Russia (down from 2,272nd in 2019) and the 65th most popular Russian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Vasily Goncharov ranks 1,421 out of 2,041. Before him are Norman Z. McLeod, Tom Shadyac, Kwak Jae-yong, Hugh Wilson, Jonathan Lynn, and Elmer Clifton. After him are Robert Lepage, Oleg Sentsov, François Dupeyron, Lucrecia Martel, William Desmond Taylor, and Robert Burks.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Vasily Goncharov ranks 151. Before him are Emiliano González Navero, Luigi Galleani, Louis Eugène Roy, Walter Rauschenbusch, Zoltán Ambrus, and Almroth Wright. After him are John Bell Hatcher, Ivar Otto Bendixson, Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, Edith Cowan, Albert B. Fall, and George W. Norris. Among people deceased in 1915, Vasily Goncharov ranks 122. Before him are Béla Las-Torres, Daniel Giraud Elliot, Antonio Flores Jijón, Solomon Schechter, José María Campo Serrano, and W. G. Grace. After him are John Bunny, Nelson W. Aldrich, Tom Watson, Lawrence Hargrave, Susan La Flesche Picotte, and Robert Smalls.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Goncharov ranks 2,316 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexander Afinogenov (1904), Sergei Bodrov Jr. (1971), Aleksandr Lapin (1964), Vasily Tsibliyev (1954), Leonid Mikhelson (1955), and Andrey Abduvaliyev (1966). After him are Leonid Shcherbakov (1927), Aleksandr Baluev (1958), Vladimir Tendryakov (1923), Yury Kazakov (1927), Nikolai Manoshin (1938), and Dmitri Prigov (1940).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Russia

Among film directors born in Russia, Vasily Goncharov ranks 65. Before him are Fyodor Bondarchuk (1967), Aleksandr Zarkhi (1908), Kirill Serebrennikov (1969), Yuli Raizman (1903), Aleksandr Adabashyan (1945), and Igor Maslennikov (1931). After him are Aleksandr Rogozhkin (1949), Grigori Roshal (1899), Pavel Chukhray (1946), Sergey Mikaelyan (1923), Ilya Naishuller (1983), and Andrei Kravchuk (1962).

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