# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-horsley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:05:57.198Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-horsley"
name: "David Horsley"
slug: "david-horsley"
description: "David Horsley was an English-American pioneer of the film industry. He founded the Centaur Film Company and its West Coast branch, the Nestor Film Company, which established the first film studio in Hollywood in 1911."
tagline: "English-American film director (1873–1933)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Horsley_001.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1873-03-11"
deathDate: "1933-02-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.78
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.041256
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0395438/"
    handle:    "nm0395438"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%88%DB%8C%D9%88%DA%88_%DB%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "ڈیوڈ ہارسلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "دايفيد هورسلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Horsley"
    title: "David Horsley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Horsley"
    title: "David Horsley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Horsley"
    title: "David Horsley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Horsley"
    title: "David Horsley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Horsley"
    title: "David Horsley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q965186"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1313481"
    title: "David Horsley"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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