# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alvin-sargent
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:36:19.325Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alvin-sargent"
name: "Alvin Sargent"
slug: "alvin-sargent"
description: "Alvin Sargent was an American screenwriter. He won two Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay, for Julia (1977) and Ordinary People (1980). Sargent's other works include screenplays of the films The Sterile Cuckoo (1969), The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1970), Paper Moon (1973), Nuts (1987), White Palace (1990), What About Bob? (1991), Unfaithful (2002), Spider-Man 2 (2004), Spider-Man 3 (2007), and The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)."
tagline: "American screenwriter (1927–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alvin_Sargent.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1927-04-12"
deathDate: "2019-05-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.014499917614105
  historical:           17.60422266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump