# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jiri-menzel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:20:21.275Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jiri-menzel"
name: "Jiří Menzel"
slug: "jiri-menzel"
description: "Jiří Menzel was a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography. Some of these films are adapted from works by Czech writers such as Bohumil Hrabal and Vladislav Vančura."
tagline: "Czech film director, actor, director, scriptwriter, writer and university educator (1938-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Menzel_III_(2017).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1938-02-23"
deathDate: "2020-09-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.54
  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.50044
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 214
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0579954/"
    handle:    "nm0579954"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Jiří Menzel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jiří Menzel"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Jiří Menzel"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump