# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dan-curtis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:33:33.485Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dan-curtis"
name: "Dan Curtis"
slug: "dan-curtis"
description: "Daniel Mayer Cherkoss, known by his pen name Dan Curtis, was an American television and film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was best known as the creator of the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows (1966–71), and for directing the epic World War II miniseries The Winds of War (1983) and War and Remembrance (1988)."
tagline: "American director and producer of television and film (1927–2006)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/Dan_Curtis.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: "1927-08-12"
deathDate: "2006-03-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.45
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.37913066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0193303/"
    handle:    "nm0193303"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dan_Curtis"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B3_(%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%AC)"
    title: "دان كورتيس (مخرج)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "دان كرتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Curtis"
    title: "Dan Curtis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Curtis"
    title: "Dan Curtis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Curtis"
    title: "Dan Curtis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Curtis"
    title: "Dan Curtis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86_%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%DB%8C%D8%B2"
    title: "دان کورتیز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Curtis"
    title: "Dan Curtis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Curtis"
    title: "Dan Curtis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ダン・カーティス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Curtis"
    title: "Dan Curtis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Curtis"
    title: "Dan Curtis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%88%DB%8C%D9%86_%DA%A9%D8%B1%D9%B9%D8%B3"
    title: "ڈین کرٹس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q692808"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/29648"
    title: "Dan Curtis"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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