# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gary-kurtz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:25:08.425Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gary-kurtz"
name: "Gary Kurtz"
slug: "gary-kurtz"
description: "Gary Douglas Kurtz was an American film producer whose list of credits includes American Graffiti (1973), Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), The Dark Crystal (1982) and Return to Oz (1985). Kurtz also co-produced the 1989 science fiction adventure film Slipstream, which reunited him with Star Wars star Mark Hamill."
tagline: "American film producer (1940-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/GaryKurtz2012.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: "1940-07-27"
deathDate: "2018-09-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.26
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.91279333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0476030/"
    handle:    "nm0476030"
sources:
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    title: "Gary Kurtz"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gary Kurtz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gary Kurtz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kurtz"
    title: "Gary Kurtz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "گری کورتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gary Kurtz (producteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gary Kurtz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gary Kurtz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Курц, Гэри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gary Kurtz"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Gary Kurtz"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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