# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arnold-manoff
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:28:26.990Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arnold-manoff"
name: "Arnold Manoff"
slug: "arnold-manoff"
description: "Arnold Manoff was an American screenwriter and novelist who was blacklisted from working in film and television in the 1950s. To survive he sold scripts either using a \"front\", or the pseudonym \"Joel Carpenter\", up until his death. Manoff's experiences while blacklisted were among the inspirations for the 1976 film The Front."
tagline: "American screenwriter and political activist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1914-04-15"
deathDate: "1965-02-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           2.969446666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  58
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0543529/"
    handle:    "nm0543529"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "ارنولد مانوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Manoff"
    title: "Arnold Manoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4795164"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/196437"
    title: "Arnold Manoff"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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