# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-sellier
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:37:53.168Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-sellier"
name: "Charles Sellier"
slug: "charles-sellier"
description: "Charles Edward Sellier Jr. was an American television producer, screenwriter, novelist and director, best known for creating the American book and television series The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams. He was also known for directing the notorious Christmas themed slasher film Silent Night, Deadly Night. Over the course of his four decade career, Sellier wrote and produced more than thirty films and 230 television shows."
tagline: "American film director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/bmxdKkux51wPxZmapGFCnjEDKwc.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1943-11-09"
deathDate: "2011-01-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.8
  momentum:             13.13839285714285
  historical:           6.811844
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0783398/"
    handle:    "nm0783398"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B3_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A6%D8%B1"
    title: "چارلس سیلیئر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "تشارلز سيلير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sellier"
    title: "Charles Sellier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sellier"
    title: "Charles Sellier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D8%B3%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B1"
    title: "چارلز سلیر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._Sellier_Jr."
    title: "Charles E. Sellier Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sellier_(produttore)"
    title: "Charles Sellier (produttore)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5082435"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/97710"
    title: "Charles E. Sellier Jr."
    type:  "DATABASE"

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