# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/davis-grubb
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:01:55.703Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/davis-grubb"
name: "Davis Grubb"
slug: "davis-grubb"
description: "Davis Alexander Grubb was an American novelist and short story author, known best for his 1953 novel The Night of the Hunter, which was\nadapted as a movie in 1955 by Charles Laughton."
tagline: "Novelist, short story writer (1919–1980)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1919-07-23"
deathDate: "1980-07-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.16
  momentum:             0.4131534569983137
  historical:           8.777793333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0344181/"
    handle:    "nm0344181"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Davis_Grubb"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_Grubb"
    title: "Davis Grubb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8"
    title: "ديفيس غراب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_Grubb"
    title: "Davis Grubb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_Grubb"
    title: "Davis Grubb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_Grubb"
    title: "Davis Grubb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_Grubb"
    title: "Davis Grubb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_Grubb"
    title: "Davis Grubb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%88%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B3_%DA%AF%D8%B1%D8%A8"
    title: "ڈیوس گرب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Davis_Grubb"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2742535"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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