# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/howard-engel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:41:25.174Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/howard-engel"
name: "Howard Engel"
slug: "howard-engel"
description: "Howard Engel CM was a Canadian mystery author and CBC producer who resided in Toronto, Ontario. He was famous for his Benny Cooperman detective series, set in the Niagara Region in and around the city of Grantham, Ontario, mirroring St. Catharines, Ontario, where he was born. He was one of the founding authors of Crime Writers of Canada in 1982."
tagline: "Canadian writer (1931–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Howard_Engel3.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1931-04-02"
deathDate: "2019-07-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.07
  momentum:             6.843657817109144
  historical:           6.341613333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0257088/"
    handle:    "nm0257088"
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Engel"
    title: "Howard Engel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A5%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%84"
    title: "هوارد إنجل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Engel"
    title: "Howard Engel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Engel"
    title: "Howard Engel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Engel"
    title: "Howard Engel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Engel"
    title: "Howard Engel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1631799"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2839742"
    title: "Howard Engel"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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