# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/manuel-esteba
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:36:31.879Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/manuel-esteba"
name: "Manuel Esteba"
slug: "manuel-esteba"
description: "Manuel Esteba was a Spanish director and screenwriter, notable for writing a spoof of Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial called El E.T.E. y el Oto."
tagline: "Spanish film director (1941-2010)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/ctM0jHpzfSTgCV6OLskVn2PNX5Q.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1941-04-17"
deathDate: "2010-02-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39
  momentum:             1.153846153846154
  historical:           8.337509333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0261490/"
    handle:    "nm0261490"
sources:
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Esteba"
    title: "Manuel Esteba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%A7"
    title: "مانويل استيبا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%AD%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8D%D0%B1%D0%B0"
    title: "Мануэль Эстэба"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Esteba_i_Gallego"
    title: "Manuel Esteba i Gallego"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Esteba"
    title: "Manuel Esteba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Esteba"
    title: "Manuel Esteba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Esteba"
    title: "Manuel Esteba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%84_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A7"
    title: "مانوئل استبا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Esteba"
    title: "Manuel Esteba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q956402"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1032561"
    title: "Manuel Esteba"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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