# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nyrki-tapiovaara
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:18:08.857Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nyrki-tapiovaara"
name: "Nyrki Tapiovaara"
slug: "nyrki-tapiovaara"
description: "Nyrki Tapiovaara, born 10 September 1911 in Pitäjänmäki, Helsinki, died 29 February 1940, was a Finnish film director. He belonged to the Tulenkantajat group which promoted modernist ideas in Finnish culture. Tapiovaara's film career only lasted four years and resulted in five feature films, but had a lasting effect on Finnish cinema. He died in the Winter War."
tagline: "Finnish film director (1911-1940)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nyrki_Tapiovaara.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1911-09-10"
deathDate: "1940-02-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.669042666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0850024/"
    handle:    "nm0850024"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D1%8E%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BF%D1%96%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0"
    title: "Нюрки Тапіоваара"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%89_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%BE%D9%8A%D9%88%DA%A4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "نيركى تاپيوڤارا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyrki_Tapiovaara"
    title: "Nyrki Tapiovaara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyrki_Tapiovaara"
    title: "Nyrki Tapiovaara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyrki_Tapiovaara"
    title: "Nyrki Tapiovaara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyrki_Tapiovaara"
    title: "Nyrki Tapiovaara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyrki_Tapiovaara"
    title: "Nyrki Tapiovaara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyrki_Tapiovaara"
    title: "Nyrki Tapiovaara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9D%D1%8E%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B8"
    title: "Тапиоваара, Нюрки"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyrki_Tapiovaara"
    title: "Nyrki Tapiovaara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyrki_Tapiovaara"
    title: "Nyrki Tapiovaara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q276751"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1040888"
    title: "Nyrki Tapiovaara"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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