# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gunars-piesis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:51:46.361Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gunars-piesis"
name: "Gunārs Piesis"
slug: "gunars-piesis"
description: "Gunārs Piesis was a Latvian film director. Many of Piesis's films are adaptations of classic stories, and he was one of the most popular directors during the Soviet era. Popular films include Nāves ēna (1971), Pūt, vējiņi (1973), Sprīdītis (1985), and Maija un Paija (1991)."
tagline: "Latvian film director (1931–1996)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/fh84bKqYP0Bv764jA4blFQnSC7w.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1931-06-19"
deathDate: "1996-02-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37
  momentum:             0.7692307692307693
  historical:           5.936861333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0682831/"
    handle:    "nm0682831"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B8%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%81%2C_%D0%93%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80"
    title: "Пиесис, Гунар"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3_%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "جونارس پيسيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun%C4%81rs_Piesis"
    title: "Gunārs Piesis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun%C4%81rs_Piesis"
    title: "Gunārs Piesis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun%C4%81rs_Piesis"
    title: "Gunārs Piesis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun%C4%81rs_Piesis"
    title: "Gunārs Piesis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4362489"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1189782"
    title: "Gunārs Piesis"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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