# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-ivory-q51577
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:08:40.685Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-ivory-q51577"
name: "James Ivory"
slug: "james-ivory-q51577"
description: "James Francis Ivory is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was a principal in Merchant Ivory Productions along with Indian film producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. The trio made film adaptations of stories by authors such as E.M. Forster and Henry James. Their body of work is celebrated for its elegance, sophistication, literary fidelity, strong performances, complex themes, and rich characters."
tagline: "American film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Ivory_(1991.09).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1928-06-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.merchantivory.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump