# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-a-prior
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:43:29.888Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-a-prior"
name: "David A. Prior"
slug: "david-a-prior"
description: "David A. Prior was an American director, screenwriter, and producer. Prior started his career with the horror film Sledgehammer (1983), and the action film Killzone (1985). Shortly after, he co-founded Action International Pictures (AIP), his first directorial effort with this enterprise were Deadly Prey, Aerobicide, and Mankillers released in 1987. Subsequently, Prior made action films until the late 1990s."
tagline: "American film producer, film director and screenwriter (1955–2015)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/gCZRb7YIrYCexAiMSlxNtpbn4Nn.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: "1955-10-05"
deathDate: "2015-08-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.47
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.164545333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0697935/"
    handle:    "nm0697935"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%88%DB%8C%D9%88%DA%88_%D8%A7%DB%92_%D9%BE%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B1"
    title: "ڈیوڈ اے پرائر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%89._%D9%BE%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "ديڤيد اى. پريور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Prior"
    title: "David A. Prior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Prior"
    title: "David A. Prior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Prior"
    title: "David A. Prior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Prior"
    title: "David A. Prior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5230510"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/45343"
    title: "David A. Prior"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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