# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-epstein
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:05:37.289Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-epstein"
name: "Jean Epstein"
slug: "jean-epstein"
description: "Jean Epstein was a French filmmaker, film theorist, literary critic, and novelist. Although he is remembered today primarily for his adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, he directed three dozen films and was an influential critic of literature and film from the early 1920s through the late 1940s. He is often associated with French Impressionist Cinema and the concept of photogénie."
tagline: "French film director, essayist and novelist (1897–1953)"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1897-03-25"
deathDate: "1953-04-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump