# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-zito
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:30:37.994Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-zito"
name: "Joseph Zito"
slug: "joseph-zito"
description: "Joseph Zito is an American film director and producer, best known for directing several cult and genre films throughout the 1980s, such as Missing in Action, Invasion U.S.A., Red Scorpion, The Prowler, and Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter. In 1985–1986, Zito spent a year of pre-production on the Cannon Films version of Spider-Man which eventually fell through. Zito left the production due to budgetary constraints."
tagline: "American film director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/6A6l55ZlV9Ri8mZ9KTy19KZpdD9.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: "1946-05-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.12
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.41188533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0957263/"
    handle:    "nm0957263"
sources:
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    title: "جوزف زیٹو"
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    title: "جوزيف زيتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "چوزيف زيتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joseph Zito"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Zito"
    title: "Joseph Zito"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Zito"
    title: "Joseph Zito"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Zito"
    title: "Joseph Zito"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%81_%D8%B2%DB%8C%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "جوزف زیتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Zito"
    title: "Joseph Zito"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Zito"
    title: "Joseph Zito"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Zito"
    title: "Joseph Zito"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Zito"
    title: "Joseph Zito"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Zito"
    title: "Joseph Zito"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%84_%D0%97%D1%96%D1%82%D0%BE"
    title: "Джозеф Зіто"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11335"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/64195"
    title: "Joseph Zito"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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