# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-leni
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:31:42.104Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-leni"
name: "Paul Leni"
slug: "paul-leni"
description: "Paul Leni was a German filmmaker and a key figure in German Expressionism, making Hintertreppe (1921) and Waxworks (1924) in Germany, and The Cat and the Canary (1927), The Chinese Parrot (1927), The Man Who Laughs (1928), and The Last Warning (1928) in the United States."
tagline: "German film director (1885–1929)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Leni_(1929).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1885-07-08"
deathDate: "1929-09-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.39
  momentum:             2.104187946884576
  historical:           17.97599333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0501902/"
    handle:    "nm0501902"
sources:
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    title: "Пауль Лені"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "باول ليني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پول لينى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Leni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Leni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Leni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Leni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Leni"
    title: "Paul Leni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پل لنی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Leni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Leni"
    title: "Paul Leni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Leni"
    title: "Paul Leni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%91%E3%82%A6%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AC%E3%83%8B"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Leni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Leni"
    title: "Paul Leni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Leni"
    title: "Paul Leni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Leni"
    title: "Paul Leni"
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    title: "Paul Leni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Лени, Пауль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q77465"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/48055"
    title: "Paul Leni"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump