# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-spoto
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:15:49.787Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donald-spoto"
name: "Donald Spoto"
slug: "donald-spoto"
description: "Donald Spoto was an American biographer, theologian, and former Catholic Monk. He was known for his biographies of people in the worlds of film and theater, and for his books on theology and spirituality."
tagline: "American biographer and theologian (1941–2023)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1941-06-28"
deathDate: "2023-02-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.14
  momentum:             3.073770491803279
  historical:           10.79075333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0819488/"
    handle:    "nm0819488"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Spoto"
    title: "Donald Spoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Spoto"
    title: "Donald Spoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "دونالد اسپاتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Spoto"
    title: "Donald Spoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Spoto"
    title: "Donald Spoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Spoto"
    title: "Donald Spoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Spoto"
    title: "Donald Spoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Spoto"
    title: "Donald Spoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Spoto"
    title: "Donald Spoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Spoto"
    title: "Donald Spoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Spoto"
    title: "Donald Spoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2056710"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1077703"
    title: "Donald Spoto"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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