# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/irving-brecher
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:09:24.240Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/irving-brecher"
name: "Irving Brecher"
slug: "irving-brecher"
description: "Irving S. Brecher was a screenwriter who wrote for the Marx Brothers among many others; he was the only writer to get sole credit on a Marx Brothers film, penning the screenplays for At the Circus (1939) and Go West (1940). Brecher was also one of the numerous uncredited writers on the screenplay of The Wizard of Oz (1939). Some of his other screenplays were Shadow of the Thin Man (1941), Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Ziegfeld Follies (1945) and Bye Bye Birdie (1963)."
tagline: "American film director and screenwriter (1914-2008)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1914-01-17"
deathDate: "2008-11-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.01
  momentum:             2.916666666666667
  historical:           6.410872
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0106505/"
    handle:    "nm0106505"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%DA%AF_%D8%A8%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%86%D8%B1"
    title: "ارونگ بریچر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%DA%A4%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "ايرڤينج بريتشير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Brecher"
    title: "Irving Brecher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Brecher"
    title: "Irving Brecher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Brecher"
    title: "Irving Brecher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Brecher"
    title: "Irving Brecher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://szl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Brecher"
    title: "Irving Brecher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q382596"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/13981"
    title: "Irving Brecher"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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