# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marlon-riggs
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:29:54.931Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marlon-riggs"
name: "Marlon Riggs"
slug: "marlon-riggs"
description: "Marlon Troy Riggs was an American filmmaker, educator, poet, and activist. He produced, wrote, and directed several documentary films, including Ethnic Notions, Tongues Untied, Color Adjustment, and Black Is... Black Ain't. Being Black and gay, his films examine past and present representations of race and sexuality in the United States. The Marlon Riggs Collection is open to the public at Stanford University Libraries."
tagline: "American filmmaker (1957–1994)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4f/Marlon_Riggs.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: "1957-02-03"
deathDate: "1994-04-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.07
  momentum:             6.3
  historical:           7.509902666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0726705/"
    handle:    "nm0726705"
sources:
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marlon_Riggs"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%B3"
    title: "مارلون ريجس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon_Riggs"
    title: "Marlon Riggs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon_Riggs"
    title: "Marlon Riggs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon_Riggs"
    title: "Marlon Riggs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon_Riggs"
    title: "Marlon Riggs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon_Riggs"
    title: "Marlon Riggs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%86_%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%B3"
    title: "مارلن رگس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q955077"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1091914"
    title: "Marlon Riggs"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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