# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-mechel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:23:40.859Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-mechel"
name: "Michael Mechel"
slug: "michael-mechel"
tagline: "German film actor and stage actor (1944-2014)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1944-01-16"
deathDate: "2014-03-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.08
  momentum:             15
  historical:           2.943742666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  58
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0051337/"
    handle:    "nm0051337"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23060116"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Mechel"
    title: "Michael Mechel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Mechel"
    title: "Michael Mechel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/36026"
    title: "Karl Michael Balzer"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Discovered via Wikipedia top-views