# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-schlesinger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:39:04.912Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-schlesinger"
name: "John Schlesinger"
slug: "john-schlesinger"
description: "John Richard Schlesinger was an English film, television and theatre director, and actor. He emerged in the early 1960s as a leading light of the British New Wave, before embarking on a successful career in Hollywood, often directing films dealing with provocative subject matter, combined with his status as one of the rare openly gay directors working in mainstream films."
tagline: "English film and stage director (1926–2003)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fc/John_Schlesinger.jpg/330px-John_Schlesinger.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "directors"
profileType:
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  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1926-02-16"
deathDate: "2003-07-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.849500211178375
  historical:           23.12381066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0772259"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump