# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/istvan-szots
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:04:00.395Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/istvan-szots"
name: "István Szőts"
slug: "istvan-szots"
description: "István Szőts was a Hungarian screenwriter and film director. He was born in Szentgyörgyválya, and later moved with his father to Hungary. Szőts studied fine arts at the painting school of the two masters, Vilmos Aba-Novák and Béla Iványi-Grünwald. In 1939 he worked at Hunnia, where he was assistant to director Lajos Zilahy."
tagline: "Hungarian screenwriter and film director (1912-1998)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/AuqtcnMRAckJ9jcLnDOLkCDxMMc.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1912-06-30"
deathDate: "1998-11-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.02
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.601836
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0844499/"
    handle:    "nm0844499"
sources:
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_Sz%C5%91ts"
    title: "István Szőts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%B2%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "ايستڤان سزوتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_Sz%C5%91ts"
    title: "István Szőts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_Sz%C5%91ts"
    title: "István Szőts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_Sz%C3%B6ts"
    title: "István Szöts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_Sz%C5%91ts"
    title: "István Szőts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sz%C5%91ts_Istv%C3%A1n"
    title: "Szőts István"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q722844"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1434181"
    title: "István Szőts"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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