# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alf-clausen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:13:01.519Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alf-clausen"
name: "Alf Clausen"
slug: "alf-clausen"
description: "Alf Faye Heiberg Clausen was an American film and television composer. He is best known for his work scoring many episodes of The Simpsons, for which he was the sole composer between 1990 and 2017. Clausen scored or orchestrated music for more than 30 films and television shows, including Moonlighting, The Naked Gun, ALF and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Clausen received an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music in 1996."
tagline: "American film and television composer (1941—2025)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d1/Cropped_Photo_of_Alf_Clausen.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1941-03-28"
deathDate: "2025-05-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.7637145930441018
  historical:           17.84140533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "TheAlfClausen"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0165299/"
    handle:    "nm0165299"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.alfclausen.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alf Clausen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alf Clausen"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alf_Clausen"
    title: "Alf Clausen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alf Clausen"
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  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alf_Clausen"
    title: "Alf Clausen"
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    title: "Alf Clausen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alf Clausen"
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    title: "Клаузен, Альф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Alf Clausen"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump