# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-august
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:35:12.642Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-august"
name: "John August"
slug: "john-august"
description: "John August is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and novelist. He is known for writing the films Go (1999), Charlie's Angels (2000), Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003), Big Fish (2003), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Corpse Bride (2005), Frankenweenie (2012), the Disney live-action adaptation of Aladdin (2019), the novels Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire (2018), Arlo Finch in the Lake of the Moon (2019) and Arlo Finch in the Kingdom of Shadows (2020)."
tagline: "American film director and screenwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_August_2018.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1970-08-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.564885496183206
  historical:           19.57949066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 31
platforms:
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    handle:    "johnaugust"
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    handle:    "johnaugust"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0041864/"
    handle:    "nm0041864"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://johnaugust.com"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump