# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harold-jacob-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:45:09.156Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harold-jacob-smith"
name: "Harold Jacob Smith"
slug: "harold-jacob-smith"
description: "Harold Jacob Smith was an American screenwriter. His screenplay for The Defiant Ones won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1958."
tagline: "Screenwriter (1912-1970)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1912-07-02"
deathDate: "1970-12-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.03
  momentum:             1.44578313253012
  historical:           7.00684
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0808414/"
    handle:    "nm0808414"
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Jacob_Smith"
    title: "Harold Jacob Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB"
    title: "هارولد سميث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB"
    title: "هارولد سميث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%BE%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%86%DA%B5%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D8%A7%DA%A9%DB%86%D8%A8_%D8%B3%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AA"
    title: "ھارۆڵد جاکۆب سمیت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Jacob_Smith"
    title: "Harold Jacob Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Jacob_Smith"
    title: "Harold Jacob Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%AC%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%A8_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AA"
    title: "هارولد جیکوب اسمیت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1585851"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/69320"
    title: "Harold Jacob Smith"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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