# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ismail-merchant
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:36:07.373Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ismail-merchant"
name: "Ismail Merchant"
slug: "ismail-merchant"
description: "Ismail Merchant was an Indian film producer. He worked for many years in collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions which included film director James Ivory as well as screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Together they made film adaptations from the novels of E.M. Forster and Henry James. Merchant received the BAFTA Award for Best Film for A Room with a View (1985), and Howards End (1992). He received Academy Award nominations for Best Live Action Short Film for The Creation of a Woman (1959) and for Best Picture for A Room with a View (1985), Howards End (1992), and The Remains of the Day (1993)."
tagline: "Indian film producer (1936–2005)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/8tL8R8eOhjEFQyEg8uXA8GBNwoA.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1936-12-25"
deathDate: "2005-05-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0580337/"
    handle:    "nm0580337"
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    title: "Мерчант, Исмаил"
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    title: "Ismail Merchant"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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