# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-lafia
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:15:05.374Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-lafia"
name: "John Lafia"
slug: "john-lafia"
description: "John Lafia was an American film director and screenwriter. He was best known for co-writing the slasher film Child's Play (1988) with Don Mancini and Tom Holland. He also directed the first sequel in the franchise, Child's Play 2."
tagline: "American film director and writer (1957–2020)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/qbs77g149SJUWlXhPGJR1rPsnka.jpg"
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: "1957-04-02"
deathDate: "2020-04-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.52
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.11037066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0480843/"
    handle:    "nm0480843"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/0vLnwMyBAN3iSVwgZvEzuA"
    handle:    "0vLnwMyBAN3iSVwgZvEzuA"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "جون لافيا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lafia"
    title: "John Lafia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lafia"
    title: "John Lafia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lafia"
    title: "John Lafia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%81%DB%8C%D8%A7"
    title: "جان لافیا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lafia"
    title: "John Lafia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lafia"
    title: "John Lafia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lafia"
    title: "John Lafia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%8F%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Лафия, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%81%DB%8C%D8%A7"
    title: "جان لافیا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q402551"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/65678"
    title: "John Lafia"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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