# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melville-w-brown
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:26:37.885Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melville-w-brown"
name: "Melville W. Brown"
slug: "melville-w-brown"
description: "Melville W. Brown was an American film director, screenwriter and occasional actor. He began his career on the local stage in Oregon, in stock companies and vaudeville, before moving to California and working in the silent film industry in 1916, at the suggestion of Charlie Chaplin. His career was cut short when he died of a heart attack in January 1938."
tagline: "American film editor (1887-1938)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Melville_W._Brown_(1887%E2%80%931938).png?width=1200"
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: "1887-03-10"
deathDate: "1938-01-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.71
  momentum:             5.625
  historical:           6.135853333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0114266/"
    handle:    "nm0114266"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84_%DA%88%D8%A8%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A4%D9%86"
    title: "میلویل ڈبلیو براؤن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88._%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ميلفيل دبليو. براون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88._%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ميلفيل دبليو. براون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melville_W._Brown"
    title: "Melville W. Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melville_W._Brown"
    title: "Melville W. Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melville_W._Brown"
    title: "Melville W. Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17581410"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1065336"
    title: "Melville W. Brown"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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