# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/noel-burch
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:45:37.501Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/noel-burch"
name: "Noël Burch"
slug: "noel-burch"
description: "Noël Burch is an American film theorist and movie maker who moved to France at a young age. Burch is known for his contribution to terms commonly used by film scholars and for his theories compiled in books such as Theory of Film Practice or La lucarne de L'Infini."
tagline: "French film critic"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/2Xdgj46YjwBtx2qA0JR4Ru55yYI.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1932-01-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.24
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.95147733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0120814/"
    handle:    "nm0120814"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "نويل يبرش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "نويل يبرش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Noël Burch"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Burch"
    title: "Noël Burch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Burch"
    title: "Noël Burch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Burch"
    title: "Noël Burch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Burch"
    title: "Noël Burch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ノエル・バーチ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "നോയൽ ബർച്ച്"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Noël Burch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Бёрч, Ноэль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump