# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-jacobson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:09:08.754Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-jacobson"
name: "David Jacobson"
slug: "david-jacobson"
description: "David Jacobson is an American screenwriter and film director from Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California. His film Down in the Valley was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Jacobson also directed Dahmer (film) in 2002, a feature film based on the prolific serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer."
tagline: "American film director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/gM7GdXoDba6sbHd13NOi0i2aW7G.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: "1953"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.45
  momentum:             9.757575757575754
  historical:           6.145429333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0414817/"
    handle:    "nm0414817"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%88%DB%8C%D9%88%DA%88_%D8%AC%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A8%D8%B3%D9%86_(%DB%81%D8%AF%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AA_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "ڈیوڈ جیکبسن (ہدایت کار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%AC)"
    title: "ديفيد جاكوبسون (مخرج)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ديفيد جاكوبسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jacobson_(director)"
    title: "David Jacobson (director)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jacobson_(r%C3%A9alisateur)"
    title: "David Jacobson (réalisateur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jacobson"
    title: "David Jacobson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3018150"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/53212"
    title: "David Jacobson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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