# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jamie-uys
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:22:10.058Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jamie-uys"
name: "Jamie Uys"
slug: "jamie-uys"
description: "Jacobus Johannes Uys, better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director, best known for directing the 1980 comedy film The Gods Must Be Crazy and its 1989 sequel The Gods Must Be Crazy II. Uys also directed the 1974 documentary film Animals Are Beautiful People."
tagline: "South African film director, film producer, screenwriter and film editor (1921-1996)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/7jFL0M1zvrZZYxeN3jxrZmMvLcD.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
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  slug: "directors"
profileType:
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  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1921-05-30"
deathDate: "1996-01-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  229
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0371059"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump