# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jack-hofsiss
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:07:26.557Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jack-hofsiss"
name: "Jack Hofsiss"
slug: "jack-hofsiss"
description: "John Bernard Hofsiss was an American theatre, film, and television director. He received a Tony Award for his direction of The Elephant Man on Broadway, the youngest director to have ever received it at the time. The production also garnered him a Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Obie Award, and New York Drama Critics Circle Award. Director of Family Secrets in the year 1984; starring Melissa Gilbert, James Spader, Stefanie Powers, and Maureen Stapleton."
tagline: "American director (1950–2016)"
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: "1950-09-28"
deathDate: "2016-09-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.37
  momentum:             7.692307692307692
  historical:           5.940425333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0389431/"
    handle:    "nm0389431"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%DA%A9_%DB%81%D9%88%D9%81%D8%B3"
    title: "جیک ہوفس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%83_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%81%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "چاك هوفسيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Hofsiss"
    title: "Jack Hofsiss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Hofsiss"
    title: "Jack Hofsiss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Hofsiss"
    title: "Jack Hofsiss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Hofsiss"
    title: "Jack Hofsiss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q524693"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/37653"
    title: "Jack Hofsiss"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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