# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-metter
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:03:20.284Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alan-metter"
name: "Alan Metter"
slug: "alan-metter"
description: "Alan Dennis Metter was an American film director whose most notable credits include Back to School starring Rodney Dangerfield, and Girls Just Want to Have Fun with Sarah Jessica Parker. He also produced and directed the 1983 television special The Winds of Whoopee for Steve Martin. In 1988, he was set to direct Atuk, based on the Mordecai Richler novel The Incomparable Atuk, with Sam Kinison as the title character. The production was shut down early into filming."
tagline: "American film director (1942-2020)"
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: "1942-12-19"
deathDate: "2020-06-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.23
  momentum:             2.651006711409396
  historical:           7.027144
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0582635/"
    handle:    "nm0582635"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%86_%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%B9%D8%B1"
    title: "ایلن میٹر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "الان ميتير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Metter"
    title: "Alan Metter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Metter"
    title: "Alan Metter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "الن متر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Metter"
    title: "Alan Metter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Metter"
    title: "Alan Metter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Metter"
    title: "Alan Metter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2830556"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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