# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-mcdonald
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:09:54.996Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-mcdonald"
name: "Frank McDonald"
slug: "frank-mcdonald"
description: "Frank Burgess McDonald was an American film and television director, active from 1935 to 1966. He directed more than 100 films, including many Westerns starring Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, and numerous TV show episodes. He is interred at Conejo Mountain Memorial Park in Camarillo, California."
tagline: "American film director (1899–1980)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/1ZLkZC5uB86FXJOs1ESPTdwxdm0.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: "1899-11-09"
deathDate: "1980-03-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.54
  momentum:             3.934426229508197
  historical:           7.678906666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0567757/"
    handle:    "nm0567757"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%A9_%D9%85%DB%8C%DA%A9%DA%88%D9%88%D9%86%D9%84%DA%88_(%DA%88%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%B9%D8%B1)"
    title: "فرینک میکڈونلڈ (ڈائریکٹر)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83_%D9%85%D9%83%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_(%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85)"
    title: "فرانك مكدونالد (مخرج افلام)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_McDonald"
    title: "Frank McDonald"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_McDonald_(director)"
    title: "Frank McDonald (director)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9_%D9%85%DA%A9%E2%80%8C%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_(%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86)"
    title: "فرانک مک‌دونالد (کارگردان)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_McDonald"
    title: "Frank McDonald"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_McDonald"
    title: "Frank McDonald"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_McDonald"
    title: "Frank McDonald"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1443765"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/46959"
    title: "Frank McDonald"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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