# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sompote-sands
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:29:50.631Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sompote-sands"
name: "Sompote Sands"
slug: "sompote-sands"
description: "Sompote Saengduenchai, internationally known as Sompote Sands, was a Thai film director, special effects creator and producer best known for directing several Thai films especially tokusatsu genre or monster films such as The 6 Ultra Brothers vs. the Monster Army, Jumborg Ace & Giant, the illegally produced Hanuman and the Five Riders, the 1980 cult classic Crocodile, Phra Rod Meree and the 1985 fantasy monster film Magic Lizard. He was the founder and owner of Chaiyo Productions, based in Bang Pa-in, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya."
tagline: "Thai film director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/a3IwFEPKBjCfy0oSTyXpS8KH3bs.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1941-05-24"
deathDate: "2021-08-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.95
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.159721333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0762369/"
    handle:    "nm0762369"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%BE%9B%E6%B3%A2%E7%89%B9%C2%B7%E6%A1%91%E7%99%BB%E7%8C%9C"
    title: "辛波特·桑登猜"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sompote_Sands"
    title: "Sompote Sands"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BD%E3%83%A0%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%82%A5%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%82%A4"
    title: "ソムポート・セーンドゥアンチャーイ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%86%9C%ED%8F%AC%ED%8A%B8_%EC%83%8C%EC%A6%88"
    title: "솜포트 샌즈"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sompote_Sands"
    title: "Sompote Sands"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%A1%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%9E%E0%B8%98%E0%B8%B4_%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%87%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%94%E0%B8%B7%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%89%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A2"
    title: "สมโพธิ แสงเดือนฉาย"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6636925"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1040454"
    title: "Sompote Sands"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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