# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jack-nitzsche
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:01:28.061Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jack-nitzsche"
name: "Jack Nitzsche"
slug: "jack-nitzsche"
description: "Bernard Alfred \"Jack\" Nitzsche was an American musician, arranger, songwriter, composer, and record producer. He came to prominence in the early 1960s as the right-hand-man of producer Phil Spector, and went on to work with the Rolling Stones, Neil Young, and others. He worked extensively in film scores for the films Performance, The Exorcist and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. In 1983, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for co-writing \"Up Where We Belong\" with Buffy Sainte-Marie."
tagline: "American musician, arranger, songwriter, composer and record producer (1937-2000)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jack_Nitzsche_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1937-04-22"
deathDate: "2000-08-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.58
  momentum:             2.193779704827816
  historical:           19.79313066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006217/"
    handle:    "nm0006217"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "جاك ناتزسسحي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جک نیچه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Nitzsche"
    title: "Jack Nitzsche"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Nitzsche"
    title: "Jack Nitzsche"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Nitzsche"
    title: "Jack Nitzsche"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Nitzsche"
    title: "Jack Nitzsche"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Nitzsche"
    title: "Jack Nitzsche"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DA%A9_%D9%86%DB%8C%DA%86%D9%87"
    title: "جک نیچه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jack Nitzsche"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Nitzsche"
    title: "Jack Nitzsche"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%A7_%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%98%D7%A9%D7%94"
    title: "ג'ק ניטשה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jack Nitzsche"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8B%E3%83%83%E3%83%81%E3%82%A7"
    title: "ジャック・ニッチェ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Nitzsche"
    title: "Jack Nitzsche"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Nitzsche"
    title: "Jack Nitzsche"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Nitzsche"
    title: "Jack Nitzsche"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Nitzsche"
    title: "Jack Nitzsche"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D1%86%D1%88%D0%B5%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BA"
    title: "Ницше, Джек"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جیک نٹشے"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q709857"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7066"
    title: "Jack Nitzsche"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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