# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/g-v-iyer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:54:03.795Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/g-v-iyer"
name: "G. V. Iyer"
slug: "g-v-iyer"
description: "Ganapathi Venkataramana Iyer was an Indian film director and actor. He was nicknamed \"Kannada Chitra Bheeshma\". His film Adi Shankaracharya (1983) won four National Film Award, including Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Audiography. His film Swami Vivekananda (1998) was nominated in the Best Film category at the Bogotá Film Festival, for which Mithun Chakraborty won the national award for Best Supporting Actor."
tagline: "Indian filmmaker (1917–2003)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/57/GV_Iyyer_Filmmaker.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1917-09-03"
deathDate: "2003-12-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.6815761448349309
  historical:           6.902774666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0412676/"
    handle:    "nm0412676"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "G. V. Iyer"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump