# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/oskar-messter
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:16:23.428Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/oskar-messter"
name: "Oskar Messter"
slug: "oskar-messter"
description: "Oskar Messter was a German inventor and film tycoon in the early years of cinema. His firm Messter Film was one of the dominant German producers before the rise of UFA, into which it was ultimately merged."
tagline: "German cinema pioneer (1866-1943)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv_N_1275_Bild-361-01%2C_Oskar_Messter.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1866-11-21"
deathDate: "1943-12-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.86
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.34823733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0582268/"
    handle:    "nm0582268"
sources:
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    title: "Оскар Едуард Местер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اوسكار ميستير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Oskar Messter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Messter"
    title: "Oskar Messter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Messter"
    title: "Oskar Messter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Messter"
    title: "Oskar Messter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "اسکار مستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Messter"
    title: "Oskar Messter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Messter"
    title: "Oskar Messter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Messter"
    title: "Oskar Messter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Оскар Местер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Oskar Messter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%9E%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%AD%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Местер, Оскар Эдуард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Messter"
    title: "Oskar Messter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Messter"
    title: "Oskar Messter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70366"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1454239"
    title: "Oskar Messter"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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