# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frederick-knott
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:31:00.699Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frederick-knott"
name: "Frederick Knott"
slug: "frederick-knott"
description: "Frederick Major Paull Knott was an English playwright and screenwriter known for complex crime-related plots. Although he was a reluctant writer and completed a small number of plays, two have become well-known: the London-based stage thriller Dial M for Murder, later filmed in Hollywood by Alfred Hitchcock, and the 1966 play Wait Until Dark, which was adapted to a Hollywood film directed by Terence Young. He also wrote the Broadway mystery Write Me a Murder."
tagline: "English dramatist and playwright (1916-2002)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1916-08-28"
deathDate: "2002-12-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.69
  momentum:             0.8029978586723768
  historical:           8.569657333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0461425/"
    handle:    "nm0461425"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%88%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%B9"
    title: "فریڈرک ناٹ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%86%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "فريدريك نوت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%86%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "فريدريك نوت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Knott"
    title: "Frederick Knott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Knott"
    title: "Frederick Knott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Knott"
    title: "Frederick Knott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Knott"
    title: "Frederick Knott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Knott"
    title: "Frederick Knott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Knott"
    title: "Frederick Knott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4354150"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7123"
    title: "Frederick Knott"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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