# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/albert-balink
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:45:20.504Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/albert-balink"
name: "Albert Balink"
slug: "albert-balink"
description: "Albert Balink was a Dutch journalist and filmmaker who contributed to early Indonesian cinema. Born in the Netherlands, he began a career in film journalism in the Dutch East Indies. A self-taught filmmaker, in the mid-1930s, he released a documentary and two feature films, before immigrating to the United States and resuming his journalistic career."
tagline: "Dutch-Indonesian journalist, filmmaker (1906-1976)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/Albert_Balink.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1906-08-03"
deathDate: "1976-02-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.42
  momentum:             1.25
  historical:           6.136933333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0050259/"
    handle:    "nm0050259"
sources:
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Balink"
    title: "Albert Balink"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%83"
    title: "البيرت بالينك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Balink"
    title: "Albert Balink"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Balink"
    title: "Albert Balink"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Balink"
    title: "Albert Balink"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Balink"
    title: "Albert Balink"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q253060"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3013542"
    title: "Albert Balink"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump