# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melvin-van-peebles
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:15:59.983Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melvin-van-peebles"
name: "Melvin Van Peebles"
slug: "melvin-van-peebles"
description: "Melvin Van Peebles was an American actor, filmmaker, writer, and composer. His feature film debut, The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1967), was based on his own French-language novel La Permission and was shot in France, as it was difficult for a black American director to get work at the time. The film won an award at the San Francisco International Film Festival which gained him the interest of Hollywood studios, leading to his American feature debut Watermelon Man, in 1970. Eschewing further overtures from Hollywood, he used the successes he had so far to bankroll his work as an independent filmmaker."
tagline: "American filmmaker (1932–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lozupone-melvinvanpeebles2015.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: "1932-08-21"
deathDate: "2021-09-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.31
  momentum:             3.773949433258378
  historical:           15.90501333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0887708/"
    handle:    "nm0887708"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.melvinvanpeebles.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump