# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/njoo-cheong-seng
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:00:31.032Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/njoo-cheong-seng"
name: "Njoo Cheong Seng"
slug: "njoo-cheong-seng"
description: "Njoo Cheong Seng was a Chinese-Indonesian playwright and film director. Also known by the pen name Monsieur d'Amour, he wrote more than 200 short stories, novels, poems and stage plays during his career; he is also recorded as directing and/or writing eleven films. He married four times during his life and spent several years travelling throughout Southeast Asia and India with different theatre troupes. His stage plays are credited with revitalising theatre in the Indies."
tagline: "Chinese Indonesian novelist, playwright, and director (1902-1962)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8f/Njoo_Cheong_Seng.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Indonesia"
  isoCode: "ID"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1902-11-06"
deathDate: "1962-11-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.17
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.6099
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4340038/"
    handle:    "nm4340038"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A5%8A%E7%9C%BE%E7%94%9F"
    title: "楊眾生"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%DA%86%D9%88_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "نچو تشيونج سينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Njoo_Cheong_Seng"
    title: "Njoo Cheong Seng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Njoo_Cheong_Seng"
    title: "Njoo Cheong Seng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Njoo_Cheong_Seng"
    title: "Njoo Cheong Seng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Njoo_Cheong_Seng"
    title: "Njoo Cheong Seng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Njoo_Cheong_Seng"
    title: "Njoo Cheong Seng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q149730"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3021170"
    title: "Njoo Cheong Seng"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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