# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-zelag-goodman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:22:37.089Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-zelag-goodman"
name: "David Zelag Goodman"
slug: "david-zelag-goodman"
description: "David Zelag Goodman was a playwright and screenwriter for both TV and film. His most prolific period was from the 1960s to the early 1980s. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Lovers and Other Strangers, though he did not win. He co-wrote, with Sam Peckinpah, the screenplay for 1971's controversial Straw Dogs. Other films that he wrote or co-wrote included Logan's Run, Monte Walsh, and Farewell, My Lovely. He also wrote a number of the episodes of The Untouchables in the early 1960s."
tagline: "Screenwriter (1930-2011)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1930-01-15"
deathDate: "2011-09-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.680454666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0329051/"
    handle:    "nm0329051"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Zelag_Goodman"
    title: "David Zelag Goodman"
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    title: "ديفيد زلاج جودمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Zelag_Goodman"
    title: "David Zelag Goodman"
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    title: "دیوید زلاگ گودمن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Zelag_Goodman"
    title: "David Zelag Goodman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1177310"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump