# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-fejos
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:24:44.851Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-fejos"
name: "Paul Fejos"
slug: "paul-fejos"
description: "Pál Fejős, known professionally as Paul Fejos, was a Hungarian-American director of feature films and documentaries who worked in a number of countries including the United States. He also studied medicine in his youth and became a prominent anthropologist later in life. During World War I, Fejos worked as a medical orderly for the Imperial Austrian Army on the Italian front lines and also managed a theater that performed for troops. After the war, he returned to Budapest and eventually worked for the Orient-Film production company. He began to direct films in 1919 or 1920 for Mobil Studios in Hungary until he escaped in 1923 to flee the White Terror and the Horthy regime. He made his way to New York City and then eventually to Hollywood where he began production on his first American feature film, The Last Moment, in October 1927. The film proved to be popular, which allowed him to sign with Universal Studios. After a number of other successful films, Fejos left America in 1931 to direct sound films in France. In 1941, he stopped making films altogether and became the director of research and the acting head of the Viking Fund."
tagline: "Hungarian-American filmmaker and anthropologist (1897–1963)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Fejos_(1897%E2%80%931963).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1897-01-24"
deathDate: "1963-04-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.88
  momentum:             5.945945945945946
  historical:           11.419836
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0270838/"
    handle:    "nm0270838"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Fejos"
    title: "Paul Fejos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%81%D9%8A%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "پول فيچوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Fejos"
    title: "Paul Fejos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Fejos"
    title: "Paul Fejos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Fejos"
    title: "Paul Fejos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1l_Fej%C5%91s"
    title: "Pál Fejős"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Fejos"
    title: "Paul Fejos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1l_Fej%C5%91s"
    title: "Pál Fejős"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Fejos"
    title: "Paul Fejos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fej%C5%91s_P%C3%A1l"
    title: "Fejős Pál"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1l_Fej%C3%B6s"
    title: "Pál Fejös"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1l_Fej%C5%91s"
    title: "Pál Fejős"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BE%D1%88%2C_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%BB"
    title: "Фейош, Пал"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3371203"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/544711"
    title: "Pál Fejős"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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