# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fred-dekker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:10:34.846Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fred-dekker"
name: "Fred Dekker"
slug: "fred-dekker"
description: "Fred Dekker is an American screenwriter and film director best known for his cult classic horror comedy films Night of the Creeps and The Monster Squad. He contributed the story ideas for House (1985) and Ricochet (1991), and also directed and co-wrote RoboCop 3 with Frank Miller."
tagline: "American film director and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fred_Dekker_Photo_Op_Animate_Nightmare_Weekend_Des_Moines_2024.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1959-04-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.16
  momentum:             3.390092879256966
  historical:           13.23953333333333
  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/nm0215269/"
    handle:    "nm0215269"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "فرد ديكر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فرد ديكر"
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    title: "Fred Dekker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Dekker"
    title: "Fred Dekker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Dekker"
    title: "Fred Dekker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Dekker"
    title: "Fred Dekker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فرد دکر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Fred Dekker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Fred Dekker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "프레드 데커"
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    title: "Фред Деккер"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Fred Dekker"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump