# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gert-westphal
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:29:20.513Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gert-westphal"
name: "Gert Westphal"
slug: "gert-westphal"
description: "Curt Gerhard Westphal, stage name Gert Westphal, was a German actor, one of the best-known audiobook narrators and speakers in German, described as \"König der Vorleser\" and \"der Caruso der Vorleser\". After his reading of her husband's works, Katia Mann called him \"des Dichters oberster Mund\". The literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki said he was probably the best reciter of German."
tagline: "German actor (1920–2002)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/93/Gert_Westphal_%281a%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1920-10-05"
deathDate: "2002-11-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.92
  momentum:             2.425531914893617
  historical:           8.569981333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0923038/"
    handle:    "nm0923038"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "جيرت ويستفال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيرت ويستفال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gert_Westphal"
    title: "Gert Westphal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gert_Westphal"
    title: "Gert Westphal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gert_Westphal"
    title: "Gert Westphal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gert_Westphal"
    title: "Gert Westphal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gert_Westphal"
    title: "Gert Westphal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/0ac844ea-b756-4755-b9ff-20150a8012af"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q121097"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1270228"
    title: "Gert Westphal"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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