# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bernard-sahlins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:42:49.474Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bernard-sahlins"
name: "Bernard Sahlins"
slug: "bernard-sahlins"
description: "Bernard Sahlins was an American writer, director and comedian best known as a founder of The Second City improvisational comedy troupe with Paul Sills and Howard Alk in 1959. Sahlins also opened the Second City Theatre in Toronto in 1973."
tagline: "American theatre director"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1922-08-20"
deathDate: "2013-06-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.87
  momentum:             0.03693444136657433
  historical:           3.572465333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1099841/"
    handle:    "nm1099841"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "بيرنارد ساهلينس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Sahlins"
    title: "Bernard Sahlins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Sahlins"
    title: "Bernard Sahlins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4893615"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1231953"
    title: "Bernard Sahlins"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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