# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michel-kelber
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:55:58.305Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michel-kelber"
name: "Michel Kelber"
slug: "michel-kelber"
description: "Michel Kelber was a French cinematographer. Beginning in the late 1920s, he worked on more than a hundred film productions during a lengthy career. Born in Kyiv, then part of the Russian Empire, he studied art and architecture in Paris. He started worked as an assistant cameraman in 1928, before progressing to cinematographer four years later. He worked with leading directors such as Jean Renoir, René Clair, Julien Duvivier and Claude Autant-Lara. He also worked for periods in Spain, including during the wartime German occupation of France."
tagline: "French cinematographer (1908-1996)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1908-04-09"
deathDate: "1996-10-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.65
  momentum:             1.428571428571429
  historical:           6.136069333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0445403/"
    handle:    "nm0445403"
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Kelber"
    title: "Michel Kelber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "ميتشيل كيلبير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Kelber"
    title: "Michel Kelber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Kelber"
    title: "Michel Kelber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Kelber"
    title: "Michel Kelber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Kelber"
    title: "Michel Kelber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1930792"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/70855"
    title: "Michel Kelber"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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