# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jeff-kanew
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:36:22.995Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jeff-kanew"
name: "Jeff Kanew"
slug: "jeff-kanew"
description: "Jeffrey Roger Kanew is an American film director, screenwriter, film producer and film editor who early in his career made trailers for many films of the 1970s and is probably best known for directing the film Revenge of the Nerds (1984) and for editing Ordinary People (1980)."
tagline: "American film director, film editor, screen writer and film producer"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/rZnmeYpyH9mosrJimhNmjI096Yh.jpg"
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: "1944-12-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.94
  momentum:             1.737804878048781
  historical:           9.252128
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0437596/"
    handle:    "nm0437596"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%81_%DA%A9%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%88"
    title: "جیف کنیو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88"
    title: "چيف كانيو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Kanew"
    title: "Jeff Kanew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Kanew"
    title: "Jeff Kanew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%81_%DA%A9%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%88"
    title: "جف کنیو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Kanew"
    title: "Jeff Kanew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Kanew"
    title: "Jeff Kanew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%95%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ジェフ・カニュー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Kanew"
    title: "Jeff Kanew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Kanew"
    title: "Jeff Kanew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q374480"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/67897"
    title: "Jeff Kanew"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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