# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bruce-vilanch
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:02:24.194Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bruce-vilanch"
name: "Bruce Vilanch"
slug: "bruce-vilanch"
description: "Bruce Gerald Vilanch is an American comedy writer, songwriter, and actor. He is a two-time Emmy Award–winner. Vilanch is best known to the public for his four-year stint on Hollywood Squares, as a celebrity participant; behind the scenes he was head writer for the show. In 2000, he performed off-Broadway in his self-penned one-man show, Bruce Vilanch: Almost Famous."
tagline: "American comedy writer, head writer for the Oscars"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Brucevilanch.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1948-11-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.1
  momentum:             5.719937086271385
  historical:           11.855076
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/bruce.vilanch.1"
    handle:    "bruce.vilanch.1"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0897358/"
    handle:    "nm0897358"
sources:
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    title: "بروس ویلنچ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بروس فيلانش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B4"
    title: "بروس فيلانش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch"
    title: "Bruce Vilanch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch"
    title: "Bruce Vilanch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch"
    title: "Bruce Vilanch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch"
    title: "Bruce Vilanch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch"
    title: "Bruce Vilanch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch"
    title: "Bruce Vilanch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch"
    title: "Bruce Vilanch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch"
    title: "Bruce Vilanch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch"
    title: "Bruce Vilanch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch"
    title: "Bruce Vilanch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q991864"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/119713"
    title: "Bruce Vilanch"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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