# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-butler
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:51:58.072Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-butler"
name: "Alexander Butler"
slug: "alexander-butler"
description: "Alexander Butler was a British film director who made over sixty features and short films during the 1910s and 1920s including many for G. B. Samuelson's production company. Butler directed several British films in Hollywood in 1920, where Samuelson had made an arrangement with Universal Pictures. Amongst his notable films are the Sherlock Holmes adaptation The Valley of Fear (1916) and the early British horror film The Beetle (1919)."
tagline: "American actor and film director (1869-1959)"
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: "1869"
deathDate: "1959"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.68
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.870230666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0064508/"
    handle:    "nm0064508"
sources:
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    title: "الیگزینڈر بٹلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ألكسندر باتلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "الكسندر باتلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Butler"
    title: "Alexander Butler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Butler"
    title: "Alexander Butler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%A9%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "الکساندر باتلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Butler"
    title: "Alexander Butler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Butler"
    title: "Alexander Butler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1449546"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1601283"
    title: "Alexander Butler"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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