# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ellis-r-dungan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:05:52.781Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ellis-r-dungan"
name: "Ellis R. Dungan"
slug: "ellis-r-dungan"
description: "Ellis Roderick Dungan was an American film director, who was well known for working in Indian films, predominantly in Tamil cinema, from 1936 to 1950. He was an alumnus of the University of Southern California and moved to India in 1935. During his film career in South India, Dungan directed the debut films of several popular Tamil film actors, such as M. G. Ramachandran in Sathi Leelavathi, T. S. Balaiya, Kali N. Ratnam and N. S. Krishnan."
tagline: "American, film director (1909-2001)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/EDungan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1909-05-11"
deathDate: "2001-12-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.5
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.25004
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006497/"
    handle:    "nm0006497"
sources:
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    title: "ایلس آر ڈنگن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اليس آر. دونجان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_R._Dungan"
    title: "Ellis R. Dungan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "الیس آر. دانگن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_R._Dungan"
    title: "Ellis R. Dungan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_R._Dungan"
    title: "Ellis R. Dungan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "エリス・R・ダンガン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "एलिस आर. डुंगन"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Дунган, Эллис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "எல்லிஸ் ஆர். டங்கன்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5365966"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2003866"
    title: "Ellis R. Dungan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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