# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leslie-mcfarlane
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:14:22.239Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leslie-mcfarlane"
name: "Leslie McFarlane"
slug: "leslie-mcfarlane"
description: "Charles Leslie McFarlane was a Canadian journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and filmmaker, who is most famous for ghostwriting many of the early books in the very successful Hardy Boys series, using the pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon."
tagline: "Canadian filmmaker and writer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1902-10-25"
deathDate: "1977-09-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.75
  momentum:             0.5099601593625498
  historical:           5.514150666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0568814/"
    handle:    "nm0568814"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_McFarlane"
    title: "Leslie McFarlane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%84%D9%8A_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ليزلي ماكفرلين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ليزلى ماكفرلين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_McFarlane"
    title: "Leslie McFarlane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_McFarlane"
    title: "Leslie McFarlane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14767574"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1312178"
    title: "Leslie McFarlane"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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