# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andrew-thorndike
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:49:08.636Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andrew-thorndike"
name: "Andrew Thorndike"
slug: "andrew-thorndike"
description: "Andrew Thorndike was a German documentary film director. He directed 16 films between 1949 and 1977. His 1950 documentary, Der Weg nach oben, won the Best Documentary Film at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 1951. He was a member of the jury at the 5th Moscow International Film Festival. At the 11th Moscow International Film Festival in 1979, he was awarded the Honorable Prize for his contribution to cinema."
tagline: "Film director, screenwriter (1909–1979)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/vLvq5Ua1Jozz35Zi784w2JB8v4B.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1909-08-30"
deathDate: "1979-12-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.91
  momentum:             10
  historical:           7.060588
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0861337/"
    handle:    "nm0861337"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%2C_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5"
    title: "Торндайк, Андре"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "اندرو ثورنديك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Thorndike"
    title: "Andrew Thorndike"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Thorndike"
    title: "Andrew Thorndike"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Thorndike"
    title: "Andrew Thorndike"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Thorndike"
    title: "Andrew Thorndike"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Thorndike"
    title: "Andrew Thorndike"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q507984"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1420554"
    title: "Andrew Thorndike"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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