# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/merrill-heatter
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:44:18.986Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/merrill-heatter"
name: "Merrill Heatter"
slug: "merrill-heatter"
description: "Merrill Gabriel Heatter was an American television producer and writer. He was best known for his collaboration with writer Bob Quigley for over 20 years and the formation of their production company Heatter-Quigley Productions in 1959. The company was responsible for the game shows Hollywood Squares and Gambit and the animated television series Wacky Races."
tagline: "American screenwriter and producer (1925-2017)"
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: "1925-12-16"
deathDate: "2017-10-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.33
  momentum:             16.13671274961597
  historical:           4.646188
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0372790/"
    handle:    "nm0372790"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "ميريل هيتتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrill_Heatter"
    title: "Merrill Heatter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrill_Heatter"
    title: "Merrill Heatter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrill_Heatter"
    title: "Merrill Heatter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1922021"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1256362"
    title: "Merrill Heatter"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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