# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-root
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:06:48.008Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alan-root"
name: "Alan Root"
slug: "alan-root"
description: "Alan Root was a British-born filmmaker who worked on nature documentary series such as Survival."
tagline: "Documentary film maker (1937-2017)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8a/Alan_Root_2012.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1937-05-12"
deathDate: "2017-08-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.23
  momentum:             10.22727272727273
  historical:           6.341577333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0740497/"
    handle:    "nm0740497"
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Root"
    title: "Alan Root"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "ألان روت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "الان روت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Root"
    title: "Alan Root"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Root"
    title: "Alan Root"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Root"
    title: "Alan Root"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4707662"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/72882"
    title: "Alan Root"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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