# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-seltzer
# Generated: 2026-09-07T21:13:25.274Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-seltzer"
name: "David Seltzer"
slug: "david-seltzer"
description: "David Seltzer is an American screenwriter, producer and director. He wrote the screenplays for the supernatural horror film The Omen (1976) and the action comedy film Bird on a Wire (1990). As writer-director, Seltzer's credits include the coming-of-age romantic sports film Lucas (1986), the comedy-drama film Punchline (1988), and the World War II drama film Shining Through (1992)."
tagline: "American screenwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Seltzer%2C_David_(2007)_crop.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1940-02-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             7.637582075407837
  historical:           15.00908266666667
  currentAttention:     34.75935828877004
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0783544/"
    handle:    "nm0783544"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Seltzer"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump