# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/craig-safan
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:01:14.568Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/craig-safan"
name: "Craig Safan"
slug: "craig-safan"
description: "Craig Safan is an American composer for film and television, whose biggest scores include The Last Starfighter, Angel, Mr. Wrong, Stand and Deliver, Fade to Black, Major Payne, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, and music to the TV series Cheers, for which he won numerous ASCAP awards. His style consists of often improvising as a form of composition as a means to quickly express himself."
tagline: "American composer of film music"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/lb3YcDOdMpS4F1BkGb6Jkti7zuv.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1948-12-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.65
  momentum:             5.686598884246627
  historical:           10.76587733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006268/"
    handle:    "nm0006268"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://craigsafan.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/395140"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AC_%D8%B3%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "كريج سفان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%82_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "کریق سافان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Safan"
    title: "Craig Safan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Safan"
    title: "Craig Safan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%AF_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "کریگ سافان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Safan"
    title: "Craig Safan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Safan"
    title: "Craig Safan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Safan"
    title: "Craig Safan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%B3"
    title: "Сафан, Крейг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%AF_%D8%B5%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "کریگ صفان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/df05b6b3-9106-4586-ab32-e873ddca6ab5"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q465612"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/63923"
    title: "Craig Safan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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