# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-s-nugent
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:34:44.573Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-s-nugent"
name: "Frank S. Nugent"
slug: "frank-s-nugent"
description: "Frank Stanley Nugent was an American screenwriter, journalist, and film reviewer. He wrote 21 film scripts, 11 for director John Ford. He wrote almost a thousand reviews for The New York Times before leaving journalism for Hollywood. He was nominated for an Academy Award in 1953 and twice won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Comedy. The Writers Guild of America, West ranks his screenplay for The Searchers (1956) among the top 101 screenplays of all time."
tagline: "Screenwriter, film critic (1908–1965)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/rQbdigLPYIAIlremCawcCg4UEbR.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1908-05-27"
deathDate: "1965-12-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.74
  momentum:             1.08433734939759
  historical:           9.429808000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0637793/"
    handle:    "nm0637793"
sources:
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    title: "Frank Nugent"
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    title: "فرانك نوغينت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83_%D9%86%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AA"
    title: "فرانك نوجينت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Frank S. Nugent"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Nugent"
    title: "Frank Nugent"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_S._Nugent"
    title: "Frank S. Nugent"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9_%D9%86%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%AA"
    title: "فرانک نوجنت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_S._Nugent"
    title: "Frank S. Nugent"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_S._Nugent"
    title: "Frank S. Nugent"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_S._Nugent"
    title: "Frank S. Nugent"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q974386"
    title: "Wikidata"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/30491"
    title: "Frank S. Nugent"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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