# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/k-s-gopalakrishnan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:34:48.030Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/k-s-gopalakrishnan"
name: "K. S. Gopalakrishnan"
slug: "k-s-gopalakrishnan"
description: "K. S. Gopalakrishnan was an Indian screenwriter, director, producer, and lyricist, who worked in Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi films. Since the early 1960s, he directed 70 films. He spent most of his career directing and producing movies with social and devotional themes. Most of his movies are melodramas. His son K. S. G. Venkatesh is an actor who has acted in television serials and in films like Sathuranga Vettai."
tagline: "Indian film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mr._KS._Gopala_Krishnan.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1926"
deathDate: "2015-11-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.99
  momentum:             0.2659574468085106
  historical:           5.108354666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0329716/"
    handle:    "nm0329716"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A._%D0%A1._%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "К. С. Гопалакришнан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كى. اس. جوپالاكريشنان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._S._Gopalakrishnan"
    title: "K. S. Gopalakrishnan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "கே. எஸ். கோபாலகிருஷ்ணன்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "కె.ఎస్‌.గోపాలకృష్ణన్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6323929"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/584607"
    title: "K. S. Gopalakrishnan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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