# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arnold-fanck
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:47:39.821Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arnold-fanck"
name: "Arnold Fanck"
slug: "arnold-fanck"
description: "Arnold Fanck was a German film director and pioneer of the mountain film genre. He is best known for the extraordinary alpine footage he captured in such films as The Holy Mountain (1926), The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929), Storm over Mont Blanc (1930), The White Ecstasy (1931), and S.O.S. Eisberg (1933). Fanck was also instrumental in launching the careers of several filmmakers during the Weimar years in Germany, including Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker, and cinematographers Sepp Allgeier, Richard Angst, Hans Schneeberger, and Walter Riml."
tagline: "German film director (1889-1974)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Arnold_Heinrich_Fanck.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1889-03-06"
deathDate: "1974-09-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.783310229694884
  historical:           16.291008
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0266691/"
    handle:    "nm0266691"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump