# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-schmoeller
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:59:12.366Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-schmoeller"
name: "David Schmoeller"
slug: "david-schmoeller"
description: "David Schmoeller is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is notable for directing several full-length theatrical horror films including Tourist Trap (1979), The Seduction (1982), Crawlspace (1986), Catacombs (1988), Puppet Master (1989), and Netherworld (1992). In May, 2012, Schmoeller was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Fantaspoa Film Festival in Porto Alegre, Brazil where his new feature film, 2 Little Monsters (2012) was screened along with his other notable films."
tagline: "American film director, producer and screenwriter"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/qXfp7TR5E0nFpKBpoL41rOOP3MK.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: "1947-12-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.3
  momentum:             0.9390520788988224
  historical:           9.503134666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0227187/"
    handle:    "nm0227187"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ديڤيد ستشمويلير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Schmoeller"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%95%DB%8C%DA%A4%D8%AF_%D8%B4%D9%85%DB%86%D9%84%DB%95%D8%B1"
    title: "دەیڤد شمۆلەر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schmoeller"
    title: "David Schmoeller"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schmoeller"
    title: "David Schmoeller"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schmoeller"
    title: "David Schmoeller"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schmoeller"
    title: "David Schmoeller"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schmoeller"
    title: "David Schmoeller"
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    title: "David Schmoeller"
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    title: "ڈیوڈ شموئلر"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "David Schmoeller"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump