# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/guru-dutt
# Generated: 2026-09-07T21:16:46.364Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/guru-dutt"
name: "Guru Dutt"
slug: "guru-dutt"
description: "Guru Dutt was an Indian film actor, director, producer, choreographer, and writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of Indian cinema. He was heavily influenced by Alfred Hitchcock in his initial films and later was compared with Orson Welles due to his works getting a legitimate amount of prominence amongst the cinephiles."
tagline: "Indian film director, producer, choreographer and actor (1925–1964)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Guru_Dutt_crop.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1925-07-09"
deathDate: "1964-10-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           57.8
  momentum:             5.017140058765913
  historical:           21.480472
  currentAttention:     27.8730003264773
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0244870"
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    title: "Գուրու Դատ"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "구루 두트"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump