# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/irving-saraf
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:57:07.430Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/irving-saraf"
name: "Irving Saraf"
slug: "irving-saraf"
description: "Irving Saraf was a Polish-born American film producer, film editor, film director and academic. Saraf won an Oscar for producing the 1991 documentary film, In the Shadow of the Stars. In total, Saraf had more than one hundred fifty film and television production credits. His resume included Poland, Communism's New Look, a 1965 television film; USA Poetry: Twelve Films About Modern Poets in 1966; and the 2009 documentary Empress Hotel following the residents of a low-income hotel in Tenderloin, San Francisco."
tagline: "American film director, film producer, cinematographer and film editor"
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: "1932"
deathDate: "2012-12-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.08
  momentum:             0.4615384615384617
  historical:           6.140317333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0764770/"
    handle:    "nm0764770"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%DA%AF_%D8%B5%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81"
    title: "ارونگ صراف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ايرڤينج ساراف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Saraf"
    title: "Irving Saraf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Saraf"
    title: "Irving Saraf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81"
    title: "ایروینگ ساراف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%A9%E3%83%95"
    title: "アーヴィング・サラフ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1364870"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/954838"
    title: "Irving Saraf"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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