# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-h-lewis
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:23:00.299Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-h-lewis"
name: "Joseph H. Lewis"
slug: "joseph-h-lewis"
description: "Joseph H. Lewis was an American director and editor of film and television. In a 30-year directorial career, he directed numerous low-budget westerns, action pictures, musicals, adventures, and thrillers. His stylish B-movies came to be appreciated by auteur theory-espousing film critics in the years following his retirement in 1966."
tagline: "Film director (1907-2000)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph_H._Lewis_(1949).jpg?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: "1907-04-06"
deathDate: "2000-08-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.8
  momentum:             1.725529767911201
  historical:           13.37516533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0507390/"
    handle:    "nm0507390"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%A5%D8%AA%D8%B4_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "جوزيف إتش لويس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B4._%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "چوزيف اتش. لويس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_H._Lewis"
    title: "Joseph H. Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_H._Lewis"
    title: "Joseph H. Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lewis_(cineasta)"
    title: "Joseph Lewis (cineasta)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%81_%D8%A7%DA%86._%D9%84%D9%88%D8%A6%DB%8C%D8%B3"
    title: "جوزف اچ. لوئیس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_H._Lewis"
    title: "Joseph H. Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_H._Lewis"
    title: "Joseph H. Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_H._Lewis"
    title: "Joseph H. Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%82%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%BBH%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ジョセフ・H・ルイス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_H._Lewis"
    title: "Joseph H. Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_H._Lewis"
    title: "Joseph H. Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_H._Lewis"
    title: "Joseph H. Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%8C%D1%8E%D0%B8%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%84_%D0%A5."
    title: "Льюис, Джозеф Х."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%81_%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%86_%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "جوزف ایچ لیوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1707160"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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