# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-abel
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:36:02.241Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alan-abel"
name: "Alan Abel"
slug: "alan-abel"
description: "Alan Irwin Abel was an American hoaxer, writer, and mockumentary filmmaker famous for several hoaxes that became media circuses."
tagline: "(1924-2018) American prankster"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alan_Abel.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1924-08-02"
deathDate: "2018-09-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.500434666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0008433/"
    handle:    "nm0008433"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.alanabel.com"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "ألان أبيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Abel"
    title: "Alan Abel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Abel"
    title: "Alan Abel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Abel"
    title: "Alan Abel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Abel"
    title: "Alan Abel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%86_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%A8%D9%84"
    title: "ایلن ایبل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alan_Abel"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4706046"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/269519"
    title: "Alan Abel"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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