# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karel-reisz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:43:14.090Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karel-reisz"
name: "Karel Reisz"
slug: "karel-reisz"
description: "Karel Reisz was a Czech-born British filmmaker and film critic, one of the pioneers of the new realist strain in British cinema during the 1950s and 1960s. Two of the best-known films he directed are Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), a classic of kitchen sink realism, and the romantic period drama The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)."
tagline: "Czech-born British director, producer, film theorist, theatre director (1926-2002)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Aankomst_en_vertrek%2C_cineasten%2C_actrises%2C_Blair%2C_Betsy%2C_Bestanddeelnr_919-6997_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "directors"
profileType:
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  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1926-07-21"
deathDate: "2002-11-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.89443333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0718554"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump