# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elmo-de-witt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:06:42.013Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elmo-de-witt"
name: "Elmo de Witt"
slug: "elmo-de-witt"
description: "Elmo De Witt was a South African filmmaker, who worked as a director and a producer. \nHis films include Debbie (1965), The Last Lion (1972), Ter Wille van Christene (1975), Grensbasis 13 (1979) and You Must Be Joking! (1986). He was a prolific filmmaker, whose activity spanned more than three decades, from 1959 to 1992. Keyan Tomaselli considers him typical of Afrikaans directors who \"have made films which conflict with the stereotypical \"farm\" image of the Afrikaner\"."
tagline: "Suid-Afrikaanse filmmaker"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1935-03-18"
deathDate: "2011-03-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.91
  momentum:             2.307692307692308
  historical:           5.738517333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0212438/"
    handle:    "nm0212438"
sources:
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_De_Witt"
    title: "Elmo De Witt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_de_Witt"
    title: "Elmo de Witt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_De_Witt"
    title: "Elmo De Witt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_de_Witt"
    title: "Elmo de Witt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_De_Witt"
    title: "Elmo De Witt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_De_Witt"
    title: "Elmo De Witt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13034709"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/80529"
    title: "Elmo De Witt"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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