# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leo-birinski
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:01:17.019Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leo-birinski"
name: "Leo Birinski"
slug: "leo-birinski"
description: "Leo Birinski was a playwright, screenwriter and director. He worked in Austria-Hungary, Germany and in the United States. As a playwright in Europe, he gained his biggest popularity from 1910 to 1917 but was ultimately forgotten. From the 1920s to 1940s he worked mainly as a screenwriter, first in Germany, later in the United States, to which he emigrated in September 1927. In the United States, he also returned to writing stage plays. He wrote in German and English. Until recently, only a minimal amount of information about his life has been available. Complicating matters, there have been many legends and rumours concerning Birinski's person, including the false report of his \"suicide\" in 1920 that found its way from newspaper obituaries into encyclopedias."
tagline: "Playwright, screenwriter and director (1884–1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leo_Birinski_-_cut_out.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1884-06-08"
deathDate: "1951-10-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.69
  momentum:             7.804054054054056
  historical:           8.345645333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0083532/"
    handle:    "nm0083532"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%DA%A9%DB%8C"
    title: "لیو برنسکی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%89"
    title: "ليو بيرينسكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Birinski"
    title: "Leo Birinski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Birinski"
    title: "Leo Birinski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Birinski"
    title: "Leo Birinski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Birinski"
    title: "Leo Birinski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Birinski"
    title: "Leo Birinski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BE"
    title: "Бирински, Лео"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BE_%D0%91%D1%96%D1%80%D1%96%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B8"
    title: "Лео Бірінськи"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85578"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/98076"
    title: "Leo Birinski"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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