# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elie-samaha
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:28:58.371Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elie-samaha"
name: "Elie Samaha"
slug: "elie-samaha"
description: "Elie Samaha is a Lebanese-American film producer. He was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Franchise Pictures, and was also the co-founder and chairman of Luminosity Pictures."
tagline: "American film producer"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/viprByXSwqPgWiFJOsRnAakIkRK.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1955-05-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.31
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.055101333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0759627/"
    handle:    "nm0759627"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/939209"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%A9"
    title: "إيلي سماحة"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%87"
    title: "ايلى سماحه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elie_Samaha"
    title: "Elie Samaha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elie_Samaha"
    title: "Elie Samaha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elie_Samaha"
    title: "Elie Samaha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elie_Samaha"
    title: "Elie Samaha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%9E%E3%83%8F"
    title: "エリー・サマハ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B0%2C_%D0%AD%D0%BB%D0%B8"
    title: "Самаха, Эли"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q381545"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18691"
    title: "Elie Samaha"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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