# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nelson-pereira-dos-santos
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:17:46.243Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/nelson-pereira-dos-santos"
name: "Nelson Pereira dos Santos"
slug: "nelson-pereira-dos-santos"
description: "Nelson Pereira dos Santos was a Brazilian film director. He directed films such as Vidas Secas, based on the book with the same name by Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos, Rio, 40º Graus, and his most well-known film outside of Brazil is the black comedy How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (1971)."
tagline: "Brazilian film director (1928–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nelson_Pereira_dos_Santos_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
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  slug: "directors"
profileType:
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  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1928-10-22"
deathDate: "2018-04-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           19.12009066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump