# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-hough
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:47:40.002Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-hough"
name: "John Hough"
slug: "john-hough"
description: "John Hough is a retired English film and television director, producer, and screenwriter. He is primarily known for his horror and suspense films of the 1970s and 1980s, including Twins of Evil (1971), The Legend of Hell House (1973), The Incubus (1982) and American Gothic (1988), as well as the 1974 action thriller Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry and the Walt Disney Studios productions Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) and Return from Witch Mountain (1978)."
tagline: "Born 1941; British film and television director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/fBV6a7aSVxQQMLQOA1rO19M4iU5.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1941-11-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.47
  momentum:             2.773972602739726
  historical:           10.31253066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0396421/"
    handle:    "nm0396421"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hough"
    title: "John Hough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "جون هوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "جون هوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hough"
    title: "John Hough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hough"
    title: "John Hough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hough_(director)"
    title: "John Hough (director)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hough"
    title: "John Hough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%81"
    title: "جان هاف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hough"
    title: "John Hough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hough"
    title: "John Hough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hough"
    title: "John Hough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q946315"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/19032"
    title: "John Hough"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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