# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jay-leyda
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:58:10.960Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jay-leyda"
name: "Jay Leyda"
slug: "jay-leyda"
description: "Jay Leyda was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film historian, noted for his work on U.S, Soviet, and Chinese cinema, as well as his documentary compilations on the day-to-day lives of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson."
tagline: "Film director (1910-1988)"
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: "1910-02-12"
deathDate: "1988-02-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.56
  momentum:             0.6060606060606062
  historical:           7.878006666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0508013/"
    handle:    "nm0508013"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%B4%D0%B0"
    title: "Джей Лейда"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%89_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "چاى ليدا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Leyda"
    title: "Jay Leyda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Leyda"
    title: "Jay Leyda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Leyda"
    title: "Jay Leyda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AC%E3%83%80"
    title: "ジェイ・レダ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Leyda"
    title: "Jay Leyda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%B4%D0%B0%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9"
    title: "Лейда, Джей"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q957911"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1121498"
    title: "Jay Leyda"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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