# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/des-mcanuff
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:46:02.459Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/des-mcanuff"
name: "Des McAnuff"
slug: "des-mcanuff"
description: "Desmond Steven McAnuff is an American-Canadian film director. He is the former artistic director of Canada's Stratford Festival and director of such Broadway musical theatre productions as Big River, The Who's Tommy and Jersey Boys."
tagline: "American-Canadian film director"
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: "1952-06-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.19
  momentum:             0.08506616257088848
  historical:           8.171745333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005197/"
    handle:    "nm0005197"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/3245780"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%85%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "ديس مكانوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des_McAnuff"
    title: "Des McAnuff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%B3_%D9%85%DA%A9%E2%80%8C%D8%A2%D9%86%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "دس مک‌آنوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des_McAnuff"
    title: "Des McAnuff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des_McAnuff"
    title: "Des McAnuff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des_McAnuff"
    title: "Des McAnuff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%88%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D9%85%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%81"
    title: "ڈیس میک اینف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/db1f5c4b-f67b-45cf-beff-493c010f1428"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3705901"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/588701"
    title: "Des McAnuff"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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