# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-crosland
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:44:11.687Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alan-crosland"
name: "Alan Crosland"
slug: "alan-crosland"
description: "Frederick Alan Crosland was an American stage actor and film director. He is noted for having directed the first feature film using spoken dialogue, The Jazz Singer (1927) and the first feature movie with synchronization soundtrack, Don Juan (1926)."
tagline: "American actor and film director (1894-1936)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alan_Crosland_-_Aug_1921_EH.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: "1894-08-10"
deathDate: "1936-07-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.18
  momentum:             7.359695817490494
  historical:           16.84032
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0189076/"
    handle:    "nm0189076"
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    title: "Кросланд, Алан"
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    title: "Алан Кросленд"
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    title: "Alan Crosland"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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