# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-briley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:31:57.309Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-briley"
name: "John Briley"
slug: "john-briley"
description: "Richard John Briley was an American writer best known for screenplays of biographical films. He won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar at the 55th Academy Awards for Gandhi (1982). As well as film scripts, he wrote for television and theatre, and published several novels."
tagline: "American screenwriter (1925-2019)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1925-06-25"
deathDate: "2019-12-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.5
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.832688
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0109300/"
    handle:    "nm0109300"
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Briley"
    title: "John Briley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "جون بريلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%89"
    title: "جون براليى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Джон Брайли"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Briley"
    title: "John Briley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Briley"
    title: "John Briley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "جان بریلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Briley"
    title: "John Briley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Briley"
    title: "John Briley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Briley"
    title: "John Briley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ジョン・ブライリー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Briley"
    title: "John Briley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Briley"
    title: "John Briley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1699413"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11845"
    title: "John Briley"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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