# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-daniel
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:46:40.021Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-daniel"
name: "Frank Daniel"
slug: "frank-daniel"
description: "František \"Frank\" Daniel was a Czech-American screenwriter, film director and teacher. He is known for developing the sequence paradigm of screenwriting, in which a classically constructed movie can be broken down into three acts, and a total of eight specific sequences. He served as co-chair of the Columbia University film program, and as a dean of FAMU, the American Film Institute and the USC School of Cinema-Television. He was also an artistic director of the Sundance Institute."
tagline: "Czech director, scriptwriter and university educator (1926–1996)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1926-04-14"
deathDate: "1996-02-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.56
  momentum:             3.362068965517242
  historical:           10.08275866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0199629/"
    handle:    "nm0199629"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "فرانك دانيال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فرانك دانييل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "فرانک دانیال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franti%C5%A1ek_Daniel"
    title: "František Daniel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franti%C5%A1ek_Daniel"
    title: "František Daniel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Daniel"
    title: "Frank Daniel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "فرانک دانیل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Daniel"
    title: "Frank Daniel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Daniel"
    title: "Frank Daniel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BA"
    title: "Даниель, Франтишек"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3497162"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1803934"
    title: "Daniel Frank"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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