# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jose-luis-saenz-de-heredia
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:18:43.007Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jose-luis-saenz-de-heredia"
name: "José Luis Sáenz de Heredia"
slug: "jose-luis-saenz-de-heredia"
description: "José Luis Sáenz de Heredia was a Spanish film director and screenwriter whose career spanned four decades. He is regarded as one of the central figures of 20th‑century Spanish cinema, noted both for his contributions to Francoist propaganda films and for his influential comedies of the 1940s and 1950s."
tagline: "Spanish film director (1911–1992)"
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gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
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  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1911-04-10"
deathDate: "1992-11-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0844538"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump