# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/denny-zeitlin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:19:00.345Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/denny-zeitlin"
name: "Denny Zeitlin"
slug: "denny-zeitlin"
description: "Denny Zeitlin is an American jazz pianist, composer, and clinical professor of psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco. Since 1963, he has recorded more than 100 compositions and was a first-place winner in the DownBeat International Jazz Critics' Poll in 1965 and 1974. He composed the soundtrack for the 1978 science-fiction horror film Invasion of the Body Snatchers."
tagline: "American pianist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Denny_Zeitlin_Jazz_Piano_Performance_Photo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1938-04-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.46
  momentum:             5.327969924812029
  historical:           7.957633333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/denny.zeitlin"
    handle:    "denny.zeitlin"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0954419/"
    handle:    "nm0954419"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.dennyzeitlin.com"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/1kHjLb76x9ecxA63ivvQl5"
    handle:    "Denny Zeitlin"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/335785"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%89_%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "دينى زيتلين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denny_Zeitlin"
    title: "Denny Zeitlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denny_Zeitlin"
    title: "Denny Zeitlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denny_Zeitlin"
    title: "Denny Zeitlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denny_Zeitlin"
    title: "Denny Zeitlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denny_Zeitlin"
    title: "Denny Zeitlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%88%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C_%D8%B2%DB%8C%D9%B9%D9%84%D9%86"
    title: "ڈینی زیٹلن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/46c4e7e3-445b-4f45-8cc9-e7709a8a199c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1189689"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/70725"
    title: "Denny Zeitlin"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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