# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-carl-buechler
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:39:42.093Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-carl-buechler"
name: "John Carl Buechler"
slug: "john-carl-buechler"
description: "John Carl Buechler was an American special make-up effects artist, film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He was best known for his work on horror and science-fiction films, mostly as part of Charles Band's Empire Pictures, and directed films such as Troll, Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, Cellar Dweller, Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College, and Curse of the Forty-Niner. His make-up work includes Ghoulies, From Beyond, Troll, TerrorVision, Dolls, Prison, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, and Hatchet."
tagline: "American director (1952-2019)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a8/John_Carl_Buechler.png/330px-John_Carl_Buechler.png"
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: "1952-06-18"
deathDate: "2019-03-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.66
  momentum:             5.902542372881356
  historical:           16.45922
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0119106/"
    handle:    "nm0119106"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump