# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/willy-schmidt-gentner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:57:36.120Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/willy-schmidt-gentner"
name: "Willy Schmidt-Gentner"
slug: "willy-schmidt-gentner"
description: "Willy Schmidt-Gentner was one of the most successful German composers of film music in the history of German-language cinema. He moved to Vienna in 1933. At his most productive, he scored up to 10 films a year, including numerous classics and masterpieces of the German and Austrian cinema."
tagline: "German and Austrian film score composer (1894-1964)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Willy_Schmidt-Genter.jpg/330px-Willy_Schmidt-Genter.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1894-04-06"
deathDate: "1964-02-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006278/"
    handle:    "nm0006278"
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    title: "ویلی اشمیت-گنتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump