# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-angell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:30:21.455Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-angell"
name: "David Angell"
slug: "david-angell"
description: "David Lawrence Angell was an American screenwriter and television producer, known for his work in sitcoms. He won multiple Emmy Awards as a Cheers writer and as the creator and executive producer of the sitcoms Wings and Frasier with Peter Casey and David Lee. Heading home from their vacation on Cape Cod, Angell and his wife, Lynn, were killed aboard American Airlines Flight 11, the first plane to hit the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks."
tagline: "American screenwriter and television producer (1946-2001)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1f/Davidangell.png"
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: "1946-04-10"
deathDate: "2001-09-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.97
  momentum:             16.22443208596475
  historical:           10.69535466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0029628/"
    handle:    "nm0029628"
sources:
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    title: "ديفيد أنغيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Angell"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Angell"
    title: "David Angell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Angell"
    title: "David Angell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D8%A2%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%84"
    title: "دیوید آنجل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Angell"
    title: "David Angell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Angell"
    title: "David Angell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Angell"
    title: "David Angell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Энджелл, Дэвид"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Angell"
    title: "David Angell"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2295429"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1213757"
    title: "David Angell"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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