# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-b-clark
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:23:42.203Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-b-clark"
name: "James B. Clark"
slug: "james-b-clark"
description: "James B. Clark Jr. was an American film director, film editor, and television director. His career as a film editor began in 1937, and he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing in 1941 for How Green Was My Valley. He continued to work as a film editor until 1960, but in 1955 also began a career as a film and television director. He tended to focus on works involving people's relationships with animals. Among the more popular and notable projects he directed were the films A Dog of Flanders (1959), The Sad Horse (1959), Misty (1961), Flipper (1963), Island of the Blue Dolphins (1964), and My Side of the Mountain (1969), and episodes of the television series My Friend Flicka (1955–1956), Batman (1966–1967), and Lassie (1969–1971)."
tagline: "American film director, film editor, and television director (1908-2000)"
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: "1908-05-14"
deathDate: "2000-07-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.21
  momentum:             0.1935483870967742
  historical:           7.872354666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0164044/"
    handle:    "nm0164044"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D8%A8%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A9_(%D9%81%D9%84%D9%85_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B2)"
    title: "جیمز بی کلارک (فلم ساز)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%8A._%D9%83%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83_(%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%AC)"
    title: "جيمس بي. كلارك (مخرج)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%89._%D9%83%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83"
    title: "جيمس بى. كلارك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B._Clark"
    title: "James B. Clark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B._Clark_(filmmaker)"
    title: "James B. Clark (filmmaker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D8%A8%DB%8C._%DA%A9%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A9"
    title: "جیمز بی. کلارک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B._Clark"
    title: "James B. Clark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B._Clark"
    title: "James B. Clark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3276795"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/38250"
    title: "James B. Clark"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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