# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melville-shavelson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:26:27.353Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melville-shavelson"
name: "Melville Shavelson"
slug: "melville-shavelson"
description: "Melville Shavelson was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and author. He was President of the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAw) from 1969 to 1971, 1979 to 1981, and 1985 to 1987."
tagline: "American film director, producer, screenwriter, and author (1917–2007)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/fRUXwYduZGGfrsOhypzhUbcUfWK.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1917-04-01"
deathDate: "2007-08-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.7142857142857143
  historical:           14.028584
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0789520/"
    handle:    "nm0789520"
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    title: "Melville Shavelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melville_Shavelson"
    title: "Melville Shavelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Melville Shavelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Melville Shavelson"
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    title: "Melville Shavelson"
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    title: "Melville Shavelson"
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    title: "Melville Shavelson"
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    title: "Melville Shavelson"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Melville Shavelson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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