# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-ripploh
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:13:46.723Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-ripploh"
name: "Frank Ripploh"
slug: "frank-ripploh"
description: "Frank Ripploh was a German actor, film director, and author. He is best remembered for his semi-autobiographical 1980 film Taxi zum Klo. The film, produced on a shoestring budget of 100,000 DM, explored the day-to-day life of a Berlin schoolteacher who also led a very active gay sex life. Extremely explicit for its day, and for some time afterward, Taxi zum Klo was considered groundbreaking for the subject matter it portrayed, and achieved something of a cult status among gay audiences of the time. In 1987, Ripploh directed a sequel entitled Taxi nach Kairo, but the film was not considered as successful as its predecessor, and it was not released outside Germany."
tagline: "German actor and director (1949–2002)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1986_Frank_Ripploh_800.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1949-09-02"
deathDate: "2002-06-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.36
  momentum:             1.836734693877551
  historical:           9.23132
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0728111/"
    handle:    "nm0728111"
sources:
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    title: "Frank Ripploh"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%BE%D9%84%D9%88%D9%87"
    title: "فرانك ريپلوه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Ripploh"
    title: "Frank Ripploh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Ripploh"
    title: "Frank Ripploh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Ripploh"
    title: "Frank Ripploh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Ripploh"
    title: "Frank Ripploh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9_%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%BE%D9%84%D9%88"
    title: "فرانک ریپلو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Ripploh"
    title: "Frank Ripploh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Ripploh"
    title: "Frank Ripploh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Ripploh"
    title: "Frank Ripploh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q73799"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/113764"
    title: "Frank Ripploh"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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