# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eric-stough
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:57:15.980Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eric-stough"
name: "Eric Stough"
slug: "eric-stough"
description: "Eric \"Butters\" Stough is an American animator and producer. He is best known as the animation director and a producer on the television series South Park. Born in Evergreen, Colorado, Stough attended the University of Colorado at Boulder and graduated in 1995 with a degree in film. A longtime friend of Trey Parker, he has worked with him and Matt Stone on most of their projects, including South Park, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Orgazmo, Team America: World Police and the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon."
tagline: "American animator and producer (born 1972)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eric_Stough_(cropped).png?width=1200"
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: "1972-07-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.46
  momentum:             1.353754940711462
  historical:           12.082728
  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/nm0832833/"
    handle:    "nm0832833"
sources:
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    title: "Eric Stough"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Eric Stough"
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    title: "اریک استاف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Eric Stough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Stough"
    title: "Eric Stough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Eric Stough"
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    title: "Eric Stough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q631766"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Eric Stough"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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