# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/allen-funt
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:59:34.349Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/allen-funt"
name: "Allen Funt"
slug: "allen-funt"
description: "Allen Albert Funt was an American television producer, director, writer and television personality, best known as the creator and host of Candid Camera from the 1940s to 1980s, as either a regular television show or a television series of specials. Its most notable run was from 1960 to 1967 on CBS."
tagline: "American television director (1914-1999)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Allen_Funt_1972.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: "1914-09-16"
deathDate: "1999-09-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.97
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.34076
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0298793/"
    handle:    "nm0298793"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8998d2c8-f9f7-4763-9d7c-df83b5f79167"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA"
    title: "الين فونت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A6%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA"
    title: "ئالن فانت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Funt"
    title: "Allen Funt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Funt"
    title: "Allen Funt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Funt"
    title: "Allen Funt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Funt"
    title: "Allen Funt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Funt"
    title: "Allen Funt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Funt"
    title: "Allen Funt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Funt"
    title: "Allen Funt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Funt"
    title: "Allen Funt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1279204"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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