# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eric-pleskow
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:45:52.833Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eric-pleskow"
name: "Eric Pleskow"
slug: "eric-pleskow"
description: "Eric Pleskow was an Austrian-born American film producer and executive. From 1973 through 1978, Pleskow was president of United Artists. Following a protest from Transamerica Corporation, Pleskow co-founded and later ran Orion Pictures in 1978 through 1991. In his later career, he served as president of the Vienna International Film Festival from 1998 until his death."
tagline: "Austrian film producer (1924–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eric_Pleskow%2C_United_Artists_executive_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1924-04-24"
deathDate: "2019-10-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.16
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.948597333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0687203/"
    handle:    "nm0687203"
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Pleskow"
    title: "Eric Pleskow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88"
    title: "اريك بليسكو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Pleskow"
    title: "Eric Pleskow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Pleskow"
    title: "Eric Pleskow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B"
    title: "एरिक प्लेस्को"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Pleskow"
    title: "Eric Pleskow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q87386"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/19676"
    title: "Eric Pleskow"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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