# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karel-zeman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:58:36.986Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karel-zeman"
name: "Karel Zeman"
slug: "karel-zeman"
description: "Karel Zeman was a Czech film director, artist, production designer and animator. He is best known for directing fantasy films combining live-action footage with animation, including Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955) and Invention for Destruction (1958). Because of his creative use of special effects and animation in his films, he has often been called the \"Czech Méliès\"."
tagline: "Czech film director, artist and animator (1910-1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karel_zeman.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "directors"
profileType:
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  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1910-11-03"
deathDate: "1989-04-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump