# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jonathan-kaufer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:43:28.225Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jonathan-kaufer"
name: "Jonathan Kaufer"
slug: "jonathan-kaufer"
description: "Jonathan David Kaufer was an American film director, screenwriter, and occasional actor. Kaufer received his first job while in his late teens as a writer for the sitcom Mork & Mindy. Filmmaker Howard Zieff later hired Kaufer to do rewrites for his films, and his work on the 1979 film The Main Event led to a development deal enabling him to direct his first film, the romantic comedy Soup for One. At the time, he was the youngest director hired by a major studio."
tagline: "Film director, screenwriter and actor (1955-2013)"
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: "1955-03-14"
deathDate: "2013-10-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.1
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.762925333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0442008/"
    handle:    "nm0442008"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AA%DA%BE%D9%86_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B1"
    title: "جوناتھن کافر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Kaufer"
    title: "Jonathan Kaufer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "چوناثان كاوفير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%86%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%81%DB%95%D8%B1"
    title: "جۆناتان کاوفەر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Kaufer"
    title: "Jonathan Kaufer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Kaufer"
    title: "Jonathan Kaufer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15128896"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1189505"
    title: "Jonathan Kaufer"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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