# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/homer-groening
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:19:59.882Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/homer-groening"
name: "Homer Groening"
slug: "homer-groening"
description: "Homer Philip Groening was a Canadian-American filmmaker, advertiser, writer, and cartoonist. He was the father of Matt Groening and inspired the name of Homer Simpson. Groening was known for work on many different types of short films."
tagline: "Canadian-American filmmaker (1919-1996)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/15/Homer_Groening.jpeg/330px-Homer_Groening.jpeg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1919-12-30"
deathDate: "1996-03-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.66
  momentum:             0.6677698270721527
  historical:           3.236262666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  73
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1363557/"
    handle:    "nm1363557"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Groening"
    title: "Homer Groening"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Groening"
    title: "Homer Groening"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5901299"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1296709"
    title: "Homer Groening"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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