# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fred-silverman
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:03:03.722Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fred-silverman"
name: "Fred Silverman"
slug: "fred-silverman"
description: "Fred Silverman was an American television executive and producer. He worked as an executive at all of the Big Three television networks, and was responsible for bringing to television such programs as Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, All in the Family (1971–1979), The Waltons (1972–1981), and Charlie's Angels (1976–1981), as well as the miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man (1976), Roots (1977), and Shōgun (1980). For his success in programming such shows, Time magazine declared him \"The Man with the Golden Gut\" in 1977."
tagline: "American television network executive and producer (1937–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fred_Silverman%2C_NBC_at_RCA_annual_meeting%2C_NYC_(cropped).jpg?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: "1937-09-13"
deathDate: "2020-01-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.47
  momentum:             2.272189349112426
  historical:           7.799974666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0798908/"
    handle:    "nm0798908"
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Silverman"
    title: "Fred Silverman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "فرد سيلفرمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "فرد سيلفرمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Silverman"
    title: "Fred Silverman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Silverman"
    title: "Fred Silverman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3"
    title: "フレッド・シルバーマン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4"
    title: "Сильверман, Фред"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Silverman"
    title: "Fred Silverman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1563108"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1220688"
    title: "Fred Silverman"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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