# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cheng-bugao
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:07:40.804Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cheng-bugao"
name: "Cheng Bugao"
slug: "cheng-bugao"
description: "Cheng Bugao was a prominent Chinese film director during the 1930s. Employed by the Mingxing Film Company, Cheng was responsible for several important \"leftist\" films in the period, including the Wild Torrents (1933) and Spring Silkworms (1933). Both films were based on screenplays by Xia Yan."
tagline: "Chinese film director (1898–1966)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/qeeZ3U5ra6IDQwZeUHpYDBBMlhL.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1898"
deathDate: "1966-06-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.26
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.872606666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0155545/"
    handle:    "nm0155545"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A8%8B%E6%AD%A5%E9%AB%98"
    title: "程步高"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%88"
    title: "تشينج بوجاو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheng_Bugao"
    title: "Cheng Bugao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheng_Bugao"
    title: "Cheng Bugao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheng_Bugao"
    title: "Cheng Bugao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheng_Bugao"
    title: "Cheng Bugao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheng_Bugao"
    title: "Cheng Bugao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheng_Bugao"
    title: "Cheng Bugao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheng_Bugao"
    title: "Cheng Bugao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheng_Bugao"
    title: "Cheng Bugao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheng_Bugao"
    title: "Cheng Bugao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q351150"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1184753"
    title: "Bugao Cheng"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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