# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hector-babenco
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:52:38.413Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hector-babenco"
name: "Héctor Babenco"
slug: "hector-babenco"
description: "Héctor Eduardo Babenco was an Argentine-born Brazilian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor who worked in several countries including Brazil, Argentina, and the United States. He was one of the first Brazilian filmmakers to gain international critical acclaim, through his films which often dealt with social outcasts on the fringes of society. His best-known works include Pixote (1980), Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), Ironweed (1987), At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1990) and Carandiru (2003)."
tagline: "Brazilian-Argentine film director (1946-2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/H%C3%A9ctor_Babenco.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1946-02-07"
deathDate: "2016-07-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump