# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/runje-shaw
# Generated: 2026-08-20T19:06:53.594Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/runje-shaw"
name: "Runje Shaw"
slug: "runje-shaw"
description: "Runje Shaw (1896–1975), also known as Shao Zuiweng and Shao Renjie, was a Chinese film entrepreneur, producer and director. The eldest of the Shaw brothers, in 1925 he founded Tianyi Film Company in Shanghai, which became one of the top three film production companies in pre-WWII Republic of China, and the beginning of the Shaw Brothers media empire."
tagline: "Hong Kong businessman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shao_Zuiweng.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: "1896-01-01"
deathDate: "1975-02-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.61
  momentum:             2.017291066282421
  historical:           5.526714666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12949251/"
    handle:    "nm12949251"
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runje_Shaw"
    title: "Runje Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%DA%86_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%88"
    title: "رونچ شاو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runje_Shaw"
    title: "Runje Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runje_Shaw"
    title: "Runje Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%82%B5%E9%86%89%E7%BF%81"
    title: "邵醉翁"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7379888"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2446916"
    title: "Runje Shaw"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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