# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/buck-henry
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:30:38.284Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/buck-henry"
name: "Buck Henry"
slug: "buck-henry"
description: "Buck Henry was an American actor, screenwriter, and director. Henry's contributions to film included his work as a co-writer for Mike Nichols's The Graduate (1967) for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He appeared in acting roles in Nichols's Catch-22 (1970)—also co-written with Nichols—Herbert Ross's The Owl and the Pussycat (1970), and Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc? (1972). In 1978, he co-directed Heaven Can Wait (1978) with Warren Beatty, receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director. He later appeared in Albert Brooks's Defending Your Life (1991), and the Robert Altman films The Player (1992) and Short Cuts (1993)."
tagline: "American actor (1930–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Buck_Henry_(4970849739)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1930-12-09"
deathDate: "2020-01-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             8.357487922705314
  historical:           23.46904933333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0377750/"
    handle:    "nm0377750"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump