# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-mensah
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:56:34.114Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-mensah"
name: "Charles Mensah"
slug: "charles-mensah"
description: "Charles Mensah was a Gabonese filmmaker, screenwriter and production manager. Popularly known as \"the Gentleman of African Cinema\", Mensah contributed to several critically acclaimed documentaries including Équateur, Les Couilles de l'éléphant and Lybek, the crunch of the alive. In a career spanning more than three decades, he worked the development of independent southern cinema."
tagline: "Gabonese filmmaker"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1948"
deathDate: "2011-06-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.24
  momentum:             6
  historical:           5.735061333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0579794/"
    handle:    "nm0579794"
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mensah"
    title: "Charles Mensah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mensah"
    title: "Charles Mensah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mensah"
    title: "Charles Mensah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mensah"
    title: "Charles Mensah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://rw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mensah"
    title: "Charles Mensah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B3_%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%A7"
    title: "چارلس مینسا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2959798"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4149913"
    title: "Charles Mensah"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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