# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hal-hartley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:12:38.060Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hal-hartley"
name: "Hal Hartley"
slug: "hal-hartley"
description: "Hal Hartley is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and composer who became a key figure in the American independent film movement of the 1980s and '90s. His films include The Unbelievable Truth (1989), Trust (1990), Simple Men (1992), Amateur (1994) and Henry Fool (1997), which are notable for deadpan humour and offbeat characters quoting philosophical dialogue. Hartley frequently scores his own films, sometimes under the pseudonym Ned Rifle, and his soundtracks regularly feature music by Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo and PJ Harvey."
tagline: "American film director and screenwriter (born 1959)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Halhartley.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: "1959-11-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.88
  momentum:             1.633011413520632
  historical:           21.390656
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0001325"
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    url:       "http://www.possiblefilms.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump