# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/farrokh-ghaffari
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:14:56.378Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/farrokh-ghaffari"
name: "Farrokh Ghaffari"
slug: "farrokh-ghaffari"
description: "Farrokh Ghaffari was an Iranian film director, actor, critic and author. Along with Ebrahim Golestan and Fereydoun Rahnema he was one of the founders of Iran's New Wave film movement. By establishing the first National Iranian Film Society in 1949 at the Iran Bastan Museum and organizing the first Film Week during which English films were exhibited, Ghaffari laid the foundation for alternative and non-commercial films in Iran."
tagline: "Film director, screenwriter and actor"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/wEr8Shaf6TjgQiObQRzDBSMNd2L.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1921-02-25"
deathDate: "2006-12-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.33
  momentum:             15.78181818181818
  historical:           8.567857333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0315469/"
    handle:    "nm0315469"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "فرخ غفاري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AE_%D8%BA%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C"
    title: "فرخ غفاری"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%BE%E0%A7%B0%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%96_%E0%A6%97%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AB%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%BE%E0%A7%B0%E0%A7%80"
    title: "ফাৰুখ গাফ্ফাৰী"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrokh_Ghaffari"
    title: "Farrokh Ghaffari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrokh_Ghaffari"
    title: "Farrokh Ghaffari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AE_%D8%BA%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C"
    title: "فرخ غفاری"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrokh_Ghaffari"
    title: "Farrokh Ghaffari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrokh_Ghaffari"
    title: "Farrokh Ghaffari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3067013"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1358411"
    title: "Farrokh Ghaffari"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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