# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/douglas-sirk
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:15:45.396Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/douglas-sirk"
name: "Douglas Sirk"
slug: "douglas-sirk"
description: "Douglas Sirk was a German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s. However, he also directed comedies, westerns, and war films. Sirk started his career in Germany as a stage and screen director, but he left for Hollywood in 1937 after his Jewish wife was persecuted by the Nazis."
tagline: "German film director (1897–1987)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Douglas_Sirk_(1955).jpg?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: "1897-04-26"
deathDate: "1987-01-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.84
  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.977784
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0802862/"
    handle:    "nm0802862"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump