# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francois-chalais
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:00:17.896Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francois-chalais"
name: "François Chalais"
slug: "francois-chalais"
description: "François Chalais was a prominent French reporter, journalist, writer and film historian. The François Chalais Prize at the annual Cannes Film Festival is named after him."
tagline: "French journalist"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/u6gsP4kPcuHRjG1iYa563Ja5y3Q.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1919-12-15"
deathDate: "1996-05-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.14
  momentum:             2.369308600337268
  historical:           7.972290666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0149859/"
    handle:    "nm0149859"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B0_%D0%A8%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5"
    title: "Франсуа Шале"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A7_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "فرانسوا تشالايس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Chalais"
    title: "François Chalais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Chalais"
    title: "François Chalais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A7_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%87"
    title: "فرانسوا شاله"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Chalais"
    title: "François Chalais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Chalais"
    title: "François Chalais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B0"
    title: "Шале, Франсуа"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3084213"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1117828"
    title: "François Chalais"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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