# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jon-h-else
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:16:10.175Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jon-h-else"
name: "Jon H. Else"
slug: "jon-h-else"
description: "Jon H. Else is an American documentary filmmaker and professor at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He directs the documentary program."
tagline: "American documentary filmmaker (born 1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jon_H._Else_(born_1944)_at_the_2024_conversation_What_is_Oppenheimer_Good_For.png?width=1200"
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: "1944-06-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.21
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.271382666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0255613/"
    handle:    "nm0255613"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Else"
    title: "Jon Else"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A5%D8%AA%D8%B4_%D8%A5%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A"
    title: "جون إتش إلسي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B4_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%89"
    title: "جون اتش السى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_H._Else"
    title: "Jon H. Else"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%86_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%B3"
    title: "جون ایچ ایلس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6270824"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1444940"
    title: "Jon H. Else"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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