# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ma-xu-weibang
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:00:23.628Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ma-xu-weibang"
name: "Ma-Xu Weibang"
slug: "ma-xu-weibang"
description: "Ma-Xu Weibang was a Chinese film director active in mainland China from the 1920s to 1940s, and later in Hong Kong, perhaps best known for his work in the horror genre, the most important unarguably being The Phantom of the Opera-inspired, Song at Midnight. Ma-Xu was also known for a few acting roles early in his career, as well as for being a screenwriter. The director of 33 known films, much of Ma-Xu's early work has been lost."
tagline: "Chinese film director (1905–1961)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/sXy6ewq5Q4wgD9VQUF1O2ncyC6g.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1905"
deathDate: "1961"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.59
  momentum:             8.936170212765957
  historical:           7.676530666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0917688/"
    handle:    "nm0917688"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A9%AC%E5%BE%90%E7%BB%B4%E9%82%A6"
    title: "马徐维邦"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7_%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%88_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "ما كسو ويبانج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma-Xu_Weibang"
    title: "Ma-Xu Weibang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma-Xu_Weibang"
    title: "Ma-Xu Weibang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma-Xu_Weibang"
    title: "Ma-Xu Weibang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma-Xu_Weibang"
    title: "Ma-Xu Weibang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma-Xu_Weibang"
    title: "Ma-Xu Weibang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sat.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B1%A2%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%BC_%E1%B1%A5%E1%B1%A9_%E1%B1%A3%E1%B1%A4%E1%B1%B5%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%9D"
    title: "ᱢᱟᱼ ᱥᱩ ᱣᱤᱵᱟᱝ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1882177"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/107465"
    title: "Weibang Ma-Xu"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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