# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dave-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:00:28.849Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dave-smith"
name: "Dave Smith"
slug: "dave-smith"
description: "David Rollin Smith was the founder and chief archivist of the Walt Disney Archives, the corporate archive of The Walt Disney Company."
tagline: "Founder of Walt Disney Archives (1940-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dave_Smith_archivist_(4511312181)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1940-10-13"
deathDate: "2019-02-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.91
  momentum:             1.285714285714286
  historical:           7.01134
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0807864/"
    handle:    "nm0807864"
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Smith"
    title: "Dave Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8)"
    title: "ديف سميث (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB_(%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%B1%D8%AE_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "ديف سميث (مؤرخ من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Smith_(archivist)"
    title: "Dave Smith (archivist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Smith_(archiviste)"
    title: "Dave Smith (archiviste)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%99%D7%99%D7%91_%D7%A1%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%AA'"
    title: "דייב סמית'"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Smith_(archivista)"
    title: "Dave Smith (archivista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3017251"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1520057"
    title: "Dave Smith"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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