# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacques-tourneur
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:05:26.142Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jacques-tourneur"
name: "Jacques Tourneur"
slug: "jacques-tourneur"
description: "Jacques Tourneur was a French-American filmmaker, active during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He was known as an auteur of stylish and atmospheric genre films, many of them for RKO Pictures, including the supernatural horror films Cat People (1942), I Walked with a Zombie (1943) and The Leopard Man (1943), the war film Days of Glory (1944), which marked Gregory Peck's debut film role, and the film noir Out of the Past (1947). He is also known for directing the British horror film Night of the Demon (1957), which was released by Columbia Pictures as Curse of the Demon."
tagline: "French film director (1904–1977)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/75/Tourneur.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1904-11-12"
deathDate: "1977-12-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.1675418854713678
  historical:           21.75941866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0869664/"
    handle:    "nm0869664"
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    title: "Турнёр, Жак"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump