# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-dante
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:38:30.564Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-dante"
name: "Joe Dante"
slug: "joe-dante"
description: "Joe Dante is an American film director. His films—notably Gremlins (1984) alongside its sequel, Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)—often mix the 1950s-style B movie genre with 1960s radicalism and cartoon comedy."
tagline: "American filmmaker (born 1946)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joe_Dante%2C_66%C3%A8me_Festival_de_Venise_(Mostra).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1946-11-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             9.85987979837146
  historical:           24.219288
  currentAttention:     12.4
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 161
platforms:
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    handle:    "thejoedante"
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    title: "조 단테이"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-category-fill