# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gary-halvorson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:39:15.036Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gary-halvorson"
name: "Gary Halvorson"
slug: "gary-halvorson"
description: "Gary S. Halvorson is an American director of television shows, stage and film, best known for directing and producing the NBC show, Friends and directing the CBS show, Everybody Loves Raymond. He is also known directing the movie, The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland."
tagline: "American director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/9KwJweL5GN0y5rvsvBhBRlVtmb0.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: "2000"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.37
  momentum:             16.35267731987665
  historical:           7.031536
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0357143/"
    handle:    "nm0357143"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/fdec23fe-93fc-4800-9671-8015a503b312"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Halvorson"
    title: "Gary Halvorson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Halvorson"
    title: "Gary Halvorson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Halvorson"
    title: "Gary Halvorson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Halvorson"
    title: "Gary Halvorson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%93%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Халворсон, Гэри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Halvorson"
    title: "Gary Halvorson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1494876"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/150641"
    title: "Gary Halvorson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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