# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/howard-franklin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:00:43.764Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/howard-franklin"
name: "Howard Franklin"
slug: "howard-franklin"
description: "Howard Franklin is an American screenwriter and film director, known for such films as The Name of the Rose and his three collaborations with Bill Murray: Quick Change, Larger than Life, and The Man Who Knew Too Little. His other films include The Public Eye, about a 1940s tabloid photographer modeled on the photojournalist Weegee and starring Joe Pesci; Someone to Watch Over Me and The Big Year."
tagline: "American film director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/qpvuzBkXp5r8EhXDvE5diPCcInK.jpg"
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: "2000"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.764869333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0291442/"
    handle:    "nm0291442"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%81%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%88_%D9%81%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%A9%D9%84%D9%86"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هوارد فرانكلين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "هوارد فرانكلين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Franklin"
    title: "Howard Franklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Franklin"
    title: "Howard Franklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Franklin"
    title: "Howard Franklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "هاوارد فرانکلین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Franklin"
    title: "Howard Franklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Franklin"
    title: "Howard Franklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3141551"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2357"
    title: "Howard Franklin"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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