# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-fyrst
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:16:53.268Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-fyrst"
name: "Walter Fyrst"
slug: "walter-fyrst"
description: "Walter Fyrst was a Norwegian filmmaker. He was born in Kristiania, the son of the physician Valentin Fürst and Margarethe Christiane Dedekam. His first film was Troll-elgen from 1927, based on two novels by Mikkjel Fønhus. Other films were Cafe X from 1928 and Brudekronen from 1944. Fyrst made propaganda films for the Nazi regime during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany."
tagline: "Norwegian filmmaker (1901-1993)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Walter_F%C3%BCrst.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1901-07-06"
deathDate: "1993-02-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.59
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.736897333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0299553/"
    handle:    "nm0299553"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Fyrst"
    title: "Walter Fyrst"
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    title: "والتر فيرست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Fyrst"
    title: "Walter Fyrst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Fyrst"
    title: "Walter Fyrst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Fyrst"
    title: "Walter Fyrst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Fyrst"
    title: "Walter Fyrst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4583769"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1188963"
    title: "Walter Fyrst"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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