# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rene-clair
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:11:23.780Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rene-clair"
name: "René Clair"
slug: "rene-clair"
description: "René Clair, born René-Lucien Chomette, was a French filmmaker and writer. He first established his reputation in the 1920s as a director of silent films which often featured fantasy comedy themes. He went on to make some of the most innovative early sound films in France, before going abroad to work in the United Kingdom and the United States for more than a decade. Returning to France in the aftermath of World War II, he continued to make films that were characterised by their elegance and wit, often presenting a nostalgic view of French life in earlier years. He was elected to the Académie Française in 1960. Clair's best known films include Un chapeau de paille d'Italie, Sous les toits de Paris, Le Million (1931), À nous la liberté (1931), I Married a Witch (1942), and And Then There Were None (1945)."
tagline: "French filmmaker and writer (1898–1981)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rene-Clair-Venise-Mostra-1958.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1898-11-11"
deathDate: "1981-03-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0.4681711013809364
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump