# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenneth-anger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:57:24.510Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kenneth-anger"
name: "Kenneth Anger"
slug: "kenneth-anger"
description: "Kenneth Anger was an American underground experimental filmmaker, actor, and writer. Working exclusively in short films, he produced almost 40 works beginning in 1937, nine of which have been grouped together as the \"Magick Lantern Cycle\". Anger's films variously merge surrealism with homoeroticism and the occult, and have been described as containing \"elements of erotica, documentary, psychodrama, and spectacle\". He has been called \"one of America's first openly gay filmmakers\", with several films released before homosexuality was legalized in the U.S. Anger also explored occult themes in many of his films; he was fascinated by the English occultist Aleister Crowley and an adherent of Thelema, the religion Crowley founded."
tagline: "American filmmaker (1927–2023)"
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country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1927-02-03"
deathDate: "2023-05-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  80
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump