# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/achmed-abdullah
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:19:49.439Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/achmed-abdullah"
name: "Achmed Abdullah"
slug: "achmed-abdullah"
description: "Achmed Abdullah was an American writer apparently from Afghanistan. He gave his full name variously as \"Achmed Abdullah Nadir Khan el-Durani el-Iddrissyeh\" or as \"Alexander Nicholayevitch Romanoff\". He is most noted for his pulp stories of crime, mystery and adventure novels. He wrote screenplays for some successful films. He was the author of the progressive Siamese drama Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness, an Academy Award-nominated film made in 1927. He earned an Academy Award nomination for collaborating on the screenplay to the 1935 film The Lives of a Bengal Lancer."
tagline: "Writer (1881-1945)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Achmed_Abdullah%2C_3_March_1919.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1881-05-12"
deathDate: "1945-05-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.42
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.820016
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0008280/"
    handle:    "nm0008280"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achmed_Abdullah"
    title: "Achmed Abdullah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achmed_Abdullah"
    title: "Achmed Abdullah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%87"
    title: "احمد عبدالله"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achmed_Abdullah"
    title: "Achmed Abdullah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q340550"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/144300"
    title: "Achmed Abdullah"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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