# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/emile-ardolino
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:25:21.435Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/emile-ardolino"
name: "Emile Ardolino"
slug: "emile-ardolino"
description: "Emile Ardolino was an American television and film director and producer, best known for his work on the films Dirty Dancing (1987) and Sister Act (1992). He won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for his film He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' (1983)."
tagline: "U.S. American film director, choreographer, and producer (1943-1993)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/yRXDdL8yngF1jI4FjFcicYL25Ii.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: "1943-05-09"
deathDate: "1993-11-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             9.556451612903226
  historical:           16.19044
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0001915"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump