Paul Fejos
Hungarian-American filmmaker and anthropologist (1897–1963)
1.00body-of-work score · ranked #890 of 2631 directors · 3 films in our library
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- January 27, 1897 · Budapest
- Died
- April 23, 1963 · New York City
- Nationality
- Hungary, United States
- Work
- film director, anthropologist, screenwriter, university teacher
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 1
1928 · United States · romance
National Film Registry (inducted 2010) · Criterion Collection spine #623 · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema
0.503 citations - 2
1930 · United States · musical
National Film Registry (inducted 2013) · Criterion Collection spine #915
0.392 citations - 30.111 citation
Complete filmography
All 23 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1920Fekete kapitány
- 1920Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
- 1920Pán
- 1920Újraélök
- 1922Szenzáció
- 1923Stars of Eger
- 1928Lonesome
- 1928The Last Moment
- 1929Broadway
- 1929The Last Performance
- 1930King of Jazz
- 1931L'Amour à l'américaine
- 1931Men Behind Bars
- 1932Fantômas
- 1932Spring Shower
- 1933Gardez le sourire
- 1933Sonnenstrahl
- 1933The Verdict of Lake Balaton
- 1933Voices of Spring
- 1934Flight from the Millions
- 1935Prisoner Number One
- 1935The Golden Smile
- 1940Eine Handvoll Reis