# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-a-contner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:44:48.349Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-a-contner"
name: "James A. Contner"
slug: "james-a-contner"
description: "James Atwater Contner is an American film, television director and cinematographer. His work includes episodes of such television series as Miami Vice, Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, The X-Files and Star Trek: Enterprise. He has also directed several films, including One Hot Summer Night (1998), and Shark Swarm (2008)."
tagline: "American television cinematographer, director and producer"
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: "1947-06-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.59
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.210296
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0176448/"
    handle:    "nm0176448"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D8%A7%DB%92_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%B9%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "جیمز اے کانٹنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%A7.%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "جيمس ا.كونتنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Contner"
    title: "James A. Contner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Contner"
    title: "James A. Contner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D8%A7%DB%8C._%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "جیمز ای. کانتنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Contner"
    title: "James A. Contner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Contner"
    title: "James A. Contner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Contner"
    title: "James A. Contner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q764497"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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