# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joel-zwick
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:40:35.833Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joel-zwick"
name: "Joel Zwick"
slug: "joel-zwick"
description: "Joel Rudolf Zwick is an American film director, television director, and theater director. He worked on the television series Perfect Strangers, Full House, and Family Matters, and directed the films My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Second Sight, and Fat Albert."
tagline: "American film, television and theatre director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joel_Zwick_(1993).jpg?width=1200"
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: "1942-01-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.37
  momentum:             0.3821923561528769
  historical:           9.488992
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0959034/"
    handle:    "nm0959034"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%84_%D8%B2%D9%88%DA%A9"
    title: "جوئل زوک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جويل زويك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Zwick"
    title: "Joel Zwick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Zwick"
    title: "Joel Zwick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Zwick"
    title: "Joel Zwick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Zwick"
    title: "Joel Zwick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%84_%D8%B2%D9%88%D8%A6%DB%8C%DA%A9"
    title: "جوئل زوئیک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Zwick"
    title: "Joel Zwick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Zwick"
    title: "Joel Zwick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Zwick"
    title: "Joel Zwick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1616772"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/54644"
    title: "Joel Zwick"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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