# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jeffrey-boam
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:29:41.637Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jeffrey-boam"
name: "Jeffrey Boam"
slug: "jeffrey-boam"
description: "Jeffrey David Boam was an American screenwriter and film producer. He is known for writing the screenplays for The Dead Zone, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Innerspace, The Lost Boys, and Lethal Weapon 2 and 3. Boam's films had a cumulative gross of over US$1 billion. He was educated at Sacramento State College and UCLA. Boam died of heart failure on January 26, 2000, at age 53."
tagline: "American screenwriter, film producer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/31/Jeff_Boam_Screenwriter.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946-11-30"
deathDate: "2000-01-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.18
  momentum:             5.153755406343443
  historical:           9.886724000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0090151/"
    handle:    "nm0090151"
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Boam"
    title: "Jeffrey Boam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيفري بوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Boam"
    title: "Jeffrey Boam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Boam"
    title: "Jeffrey Boam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Boam"
    title: "Jeffrey Boam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Boam"
    title: "Jeffrey Boam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Boam"
    title: "Jeffrey Boam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Boam"
    title: "Jeffrey Boam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%95%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9C%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0"
    title: "ジェフリー・ボーム"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%8D%D0%BC%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%84%D1%84%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Боэм, Джеффри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q251638"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/737"
    title: "Jeffrey Boam"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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