# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nabil-maleh
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:32:18.672Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nabil-maleh"
name: "Nabil Maleh"
slug: "nabil-maleh"
description: "Nabil Maleh was a Syrian film director, screenwriter, producer, painter and poet; he is thought to be a father of Syrian cinema.\nNabil has published more than 1,000 articles, short stories, essays and poems. He is the writer and director of 120 short, experimental and documentary works and 12 feature-length films including The Extras and The Leopard. He has more than 60 awards at international film festivals, including several lifetime achievement awards. Several of his films are in the curriculum of international film schools, and he has taught film direction, acting, writing and aesthetics at many universities, centers and associations, including the University of Texas at Austin and the University of California in Los Angeles."
tagline: "Syrian film director and painter (1936-2016)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/4TwOHcYkEUHcSbNSGhXmNTeiD23.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1936-09-28"
deathDate: "2016-02-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.02
  momentum:             1.502890173410405
  historical:           8.540497333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0539310/"
    handle:    "nm0539310"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "نبيل المالح"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD"
    title: "نبيل المالح"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabil_Maleh"
    title: "Nabil Maleh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabil_Maleh"
    title: "Nabil Maleh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabil_Maleh"
    title: "Nabil Maleh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD"
    title: "نبیل مالح"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabil_Al_Maleh"
    title: "Nabil Al Maleh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabil_Maleh"
    title: "Nabil Maleh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17149840"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1436673"
    title: "Nabil Maleh"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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