# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-g-avildsen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:38:45.868Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-g-avildsen"
name: "John G. Avildsen"
slug: "john-g-avildsen"
description: "John Guilbert Avildsen was an American film director. He is best known for directing Rocky (1976), which earned him the Academy Award for Best Director. He is also known for directing the first three films in The Karate Kid franchise (1984–1989). Other films he directed include Joe (1970), Save the Tiger (1973), The Formula (1980), Neighbors (1981), Lean on Me (1989), Rocky V (1990), 8 Seconds (1994), and Inferno (1999)."
tagline: "American film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_G._Avildsen_(1986).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
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  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1935-12-21"
deathDate: "2017-06-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             30.75381750465549
  historical:           22.519732
  currentAttention:     1.2
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 221
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump