# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/douglas-c-kenney
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:54:38.087Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/douglas-c-kenney"
name: "Douglas C. Kenney"
slug: "douglas-c-kenney"
description: "Douglas Clark Francis Kenney was an American comedy writer of magazine, novels, radio, TV and film, who co-founded the magazine National Lampoon in 1970. Kenney edited the magazine and wrote much of its early material. He went on to write, produce, and perform in the influential comedies Animal House and Caddyshack before his death at the age of 33."
tagline: "American writer, co-founder and editor of National Lampoon (1946-1980)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/20/Douglas_Kenney.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946-12-10"
deathDate: "1980-08-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.26
  momentum:             1.239112926354483
  historical:           10.59082666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0448469/"
    handle:    "nm0448469"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Douglas Kenney"
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    title: "Douglas Kenney"
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    title: "Douglas Kenney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Kenney"
    title: "Douglas Kenney"
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    title: "Дуглас Кенні"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump