# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-mckenna
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:42:06.190Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-mckenna"
name: "David McKenna"
slug: "david-mckenna"
description: "David McKenna is an American screenwriter and producer. He wrote the screenplays for American History X (1998), Blow (2001) and S.W.A.T. (2003). He is also a film professor at Columbia University and Barnard College."
tagline: "American screenwriter"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1968-08-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.13
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.744792
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0571346/"
    handle:    "nm0571346"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKenna"
    title: "David McKenna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "ديفيد ماكينا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D9%85%DA%A9%D9%86%D8%A7_(%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C%DA%86%DB%8C)"
    title: "دیوید مکنا (یازیچی)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKenna_(Autor)"
    title: "David McKenna (Autor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKenna_(writer)"
    title: "David McKenna (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D9%85%DA%A9%D9%86%D8%A7_(%D9%86%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%87)"
    title: "دیوید مکنا (نویسنده)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKenna"
    title: "David McKenna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKenna"
    title: "David McKenna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKenna"
    title: "David McKenna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKenna_(scenarist)"
    title: "David McKenna (scenarist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q371510"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/818"
    title: "David McKenna"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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