# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ringo-lam
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:06:45.204Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ringo-lam"
name: "Ringo Lam"
slug: "ringo-lam"
description: "Ringo Lam Ling-Tung was a Hong Kong filmmaker. He was known for his action and crime films produced during the Hong Kong New Wave, many of them comprising entries in the heroic bloodshed subgenre. He was nominated for six Hong Kong Film Awards, winning Best Director for his 1987 film City on Fire, which he followed with other similar films that shared a dark view of Hong Kong society, collectively known as the \"On Fire\" cycle."
tagline: "Hong Kong filmmaker (1955–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ringo_Lam.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1955-12-08"
deathDate: "2018-12-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.64
  momentum:             0.222841225626741
  historical:           18.637816
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0482681/"
    handle:    "nm0482681"
sources:
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    title: "林嶺東"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "رينغو لام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "رينجو لام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ringo Lam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringo_Lam"
    title: "Ringo Lam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringo_Lam"
    title: "Ringo Lam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringo_Lam"
    title: "Ringo Lam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF%D9%88_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "رینگو لام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringo_Lam"
    title: "Ringo Lam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringo_Lam"
    title: "Ringo Lam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringo_Lam"
    title: "Ringo Lam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringo_Lam"
    title: "Ringo Lam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringo_Lam"
    title: "Ringo Lam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "リンゴ・ラム"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ringo Lam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringo_Lam"
    title: "Ringo Lam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringo_Lam"
    title: "Ringo Lam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringo_Lam"
    title: "Ringo Lam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%BC%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%BE"
    title: "Лам, Ринго"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringo_Lam"
    title: "Ringo Lam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A2m_L%C4%A9nh_%C4%90%C3%B4ng"
    title: "Lâm Lĩnh Đông"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q285908"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/26767"
    title: "Ringo Lam Ling-Tung"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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