# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ben-barzman
# Generated: 2026-09-01T06:37:59.421Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ben-barzman"
name: "Ben Barzman"
slug: "ben-barzman"
description: "Ben Barzman was a Canadian journalist, screenwriter, and novelist, blacklisted during the McCarthy Era and known best for his screenplays for the movies Back to Bataan (1945), El Cid (1961), and The Blue Max (1966)."
tagline: "Canadian writer (1910–1989)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/lISJ1VVnwfx7qNOKbUqrTlRAyF6.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1910-10-12"
deathDate: "1989-12-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.45
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.231212
  currentAttention:     88.67521367521366
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0059553/"
    handle:    "nm0059553"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Barzman"
    title: "Ben Barzman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B2%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "بين بارزمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Barzman"
    title: "Ben Barzman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Barzman"
    title: "Ben Barzman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B2%D9%85%D9%86"
    title: "بن بارزمن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Barzman"
    title: "Ben Barzman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ベン・バーズマン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q816429"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/92720"
    title: "Ben Barzman"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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