# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-benayoun
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:46:34.382Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-benayoun"
name: "Robert Benayoun"
slug: "robert-benayoun"
description: "Robert Benayoun was a French film critic, author, and film director. A member of the surrealist movement from 1948, he was a key figure at Positif for over three decades, where he waged a sustained polemic against Cahiers du cinéma and the French New Wave. He would later direct two feature films."
tagline: "French film director (1926–1996)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/gS3iNYDmw58PV0uXWBHWHYYtICM.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1926-12-12"
deathDate: "1996-10-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.02
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.546473333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0070302/"
    handle:    "nm0070302"
sources:
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Benayoun"
    title: "Robert Benayoun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "روبيرت بينايون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Benayoun"
    title: "Robert Benayoun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Benayoun"
    title: "Robert Benayoun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Benayoun"
    title: "Robert Benayoun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Benayoun"
    title: "Robert Benayoun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Benayoun"
    title: "Robert Benayoun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Benayoun"
    title: "Robert Benayoun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Benayoun"
    title: "Robert Benayoun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q922187"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/544743"
    title: "Robert Benayoun"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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