# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dominick-dunne
# Generated: 2026-09-07T21:58:21.302Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dominick-dunne"
name: "Dominick Dunne"
slug: "dominick-dunne"
description: "Dominick John Dunne was an American writer, investigative journalist, and producer. He began his career in film and television as a producer of the pioneering gay film The Boys in the Band (1970) and as the producer of the drama film The Panic in Needle Park (1971). He turned to writing in the early 1970s. After the 1982 murder of his daughter Dominique, an actress who had her breakthrough role in the film Poltergeist that year, he began to write about the interaction of wealth and high society with the judicial system. Dunne was a frequent contributor to Vanity Fair, and, beginning in the 1980s, often appeared on television discussing crime."
tagline: "American writer and journalist (1925-2009)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/Dominick_Dunne.jpg"
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: "1925-10-29"
deathDate: "2009-08-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.77
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.079505333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0242839/"
    handle:    "nm0242839"
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominick_Dunne"
    title: "Dominick Dunne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "دومينيك دون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "دومينيك دون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%86%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "دۆمینیک دان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominick_Dunne"
    title: "Dominick Dunne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominick_Dunne"
    title: "Dominick Dunne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominick_Dunne"
    title: "Dominick Dunne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A7_%D7%93%D7%90%D7%9F"
    title: "דומיניק דאן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominick_Dunne"
    title: "Dominick Dunne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q448767"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1224686"
    title: "Dominick Dunne"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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