# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-pierre-melville
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:27:23.606Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-pierre-melville"
name: "Jean-Pierre Melville"
slug: "jean-pierre-melville"
description: "Jean-Pierre Grumbach, known professionally as Jean-Pierre Melville, was a French filmmaker. Considered a spiritual godfather of the French New Wave, he was one of the first fully-independent French filmmakers to achieve commercial and critical success. His works include the crime dramas Bob le flambeur (1956), Le Doulos (1962), Le Samouraï (1967), and Le Cercle Rouge (1970), and the war films Le Silence de la mer (1949) and Army of Shadows (1969)."
tagline: "French filmmaker and actor (1917–1973)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jean-Pierre_Melville_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1917-10-20"
deathDate: "1973-08-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.59
  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.13713066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 220
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0578483/"
    handle:    "nm0578483"
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Melville"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%81%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "جان بيري ميلفلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%81%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "جان بيرى ميلفلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D0%B0%D0%BD-%D0%9F%E2%80%99%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Жан-П’ер Мельвіль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D0%B0%D0%BD-%D0%9F%D0%B8%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BB"
    title: "Жан-Пиер Мелвил"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Melville"
    title: "Jean-Pierre Melville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Melville"
    title: "Jean-Pierre Melville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Melville"
    title: "Jean-Pierre Melville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Melville"
    title: "Jean-Pierre Melville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%96%CE%B1%CE%BD-%CE%A0%CE%B9%CE%AD%CF%81_%CE%9C%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%B2%CE%AF%CE%BB"
    title: "Ζαν-Πιέρ Μελβίλ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Melville"
    title: "Jean-Pierre Melville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Melville"
    title: "Jean-Pierre Melville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Melville"
    title: "Jean-Pierre Melville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Melville"
    title: "Jean-Pierre Melville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%98%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%B1_%D9%85%D9%84%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "ژان-پیر ملویل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Melville"
    title: "Jean-Pierre Melville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Melville"
    title: "Jean-Pierre Melville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Melville"
    title: "Jean-Pierre Melville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%96'%D7%90%D7%9F-%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A8_%D7%9E%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99%D7%9C"
    title: "ז'אן-פייר מלוויל"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Melville"
    title: "Jean-Pierre Melville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Melville"
    title: "Jean-Pierre Melville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Melville"
    title: "Jean-Pierre Melville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Melville"
    title: "Jean-Pierre Melville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%EF%BC%9D%E3%83%94%E3%82%A8%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AB"
    title: "ジャン＝ピエール・メルヴィル"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D0%B0%D0%BD-%D0%9F%D1%8C%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Жан-Пьер Мельвиль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9E%A5%ED%94%BC%EC%97%90%EB%A5%B4_%EB%A9%9C%EB%B9%8C"
    title: "장피에르 멜빌"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168693"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3831"
    title: "Jean-Pierre Melville"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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