# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franz-otto-kruger
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:29:37.626Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franz-otto-kruger"
name: "Franz-Otto Krüger"
slug: "franz-otto-kruger"
description: "Franz-Otto Krüger was a German film and television actor. Krüger already started his acting at Berlin theatres in 1934, but his career was interrupted by his service in the Second World War. He appeared in over 125 film and television productions between 1947 and 1987, mostly in supporting roles. One of his first films was Roberto Rossellini's neorealist classic Germany, Year Zero."
tagline: "German actor (1917–1988)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/ySLh5a9HNPgastpoxhiKOcquJiy.jpg"
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: "1917-04-01"
deathDate: "1988-03-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.68
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.485926666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0473223/"
    handle:    "nm0473223"
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    title: "Discogs"
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    title: "فرانز وتو كروجير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Franz-Otto Krüger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz-Otto_Kr%C3%BCger"
    title: "Franz-Otto Krüger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz-Otto_Kr%C3%BCger"
    title: "Franz-Otto Krüger"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz-Otto_Kr%C3%BCger"
    title: "Franz-Otto Krüger"
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    title: "Franz-Otto Krüger"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Franz-Otto Krüger"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump