# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melville-shyer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:41:12.998Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melville-shyer"
name: "Melville Shyer"
slug: "melville-shyer"
description: "Melville Jacob Shyer was an American film director, screenwriter and producer and one of the founders of the Directors Guild of America. His career spanned over 50 years, during which he worked with Mack Sennett and D. W. Griffith."
tagline: "American film director (1895–1968)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Melville_Shyer_7-17.jpg/330px-Melville_Shyer_7-17.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: "1895-09-28"
deathDate: "1968-09-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.55
  momentum:             3.952093856933356
  historical:           5.080670666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0796126/"
    handle:    "nm0796126"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%DA%A4%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "ميلڤيل شير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melville_Shyer"
    title: "Melville Shyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melville_Shyer"
    title: "Melville Shyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melville_Shyer"
    title: "Melville Shyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B1"
    title: "میلویل شائر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3854318"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1010138"
    title: "Melville Shyer"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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