# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/manny-farber
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:52:47.259Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/manny-farber"
name: "Manny Farber"
slug: "manny-farber"
description: "Emanuel Farber was an American painter, film critic and writer. Often described as \"iconoclastic\", Farber developed a distinctive prose style and set of theoretical stances which have had a large influence on later generations of film critics and influence on underground culture. Susan Sontag considered him to be \"the liveliest, smartest, most original film critic this country has ever produced.\""
tagline: "American artist (1917–2008)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1917-02-20"
deathDate: "2008-08-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.35
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.897878666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0267146/"
    handle:    "nm0267146"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Manny_Farber"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A_%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1"
    title: "ماني فاربر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%89_%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1"
    title: "مانى فاربر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manny_Farber"
    title: "Manny Farber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manny_Farber"
    title: "Manny Farber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manny_Farber"
    title: "Manny Farber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC"
    title: "マニー・ファーバー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manny_Farber"
    title: "Manny Farber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q373481"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2109540"
    title: "Manny Farber"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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