# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lawson-harris
# Generated: 2026-09-01T15:05:23.213Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lawson-harris"
name: "Lawson Harris"
slug: "lawson-harris"
description: "William Lawson Harris was an American director, actor, producer, and writer who made a number of films in Australia. He came to Australia originally at the behest of Arthur Shirley to work as production manager on The Throwback (1920) and stayed out there for a number of years. Harris was the father of actor and director John Derek."
tagline: "American director, actor, producer, and writer (1897-1948)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lawson_Harris_in_1948.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: "1897-06-30"
deathDate: "1948-03-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.68
  momentum:             0.4786680541103017
  historical:           5.102918666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1241444/"
    handle:    "nm1241444"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "لاوسون هاريس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawson_Harris"
    title: "Lawson Harris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "لاوسون هاريس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawson_Harris"
    title: "Lawson Harris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%86_%DB%81%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%B3"
    title: "لاسن ہیرس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6504975"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3958306"
    title: "Lawson Harris"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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