# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-ritchie
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:37:02.488Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-ritchie"
name: "Michael Ritchie"
slug: "michael-ritchie"
description: "Michael Brunswick Ritchie was an American film director, producer, and writer of films with comical or satirical leanings, such as The Candidate (1972) and Smile (1975). He scored commercial successes directing sports films like Downhill Racer (1969) and The Bad News Bears (1976), and comedies like Chevy Chase's Fletch (1985) and Eddie Murphy's The Golden Child (1986)."
tagline: "American film director (1938–2001)"
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: "1938-11-28"
deathDate: "2001-04-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.59
  momentum:             2.180726908969656
  historical:           14.99817466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006916/"
    handle:    "nm0006916"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%84_%D8%B1%DA%86%DB%8C_(%D9%81%D9%84%D9%85_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B2)"
    title: "مائیکل رچی (فلم ساز)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A"
    title: "مايكل ريتشي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%89"
    title: "مايكل ريتشى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ritchie"
    title: "Michael Ritchie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ritchie"
    title: "Michael Ritchie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ritchie_(filmmaker)"
    title: "Michael Ritchie (filmmaker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ritchie"
    title: "Michael Ritchie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ritchie"
    title: "Michael Ritchie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%84_%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%86%DB%8C"
    title: "مایکل ریچی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ritchie"
    title: "Michael Ritchie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ritchie"
    title: "Michael Ritchie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%81%E3%83%BC"
    title: "マイケル・リッチー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ritchie"
    title: "Michael Ritchie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ritchie"
    title: "Michael Ritchie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ritchie"
    title: "Michael Ritchie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%87%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB"
    title: "Ритчи, Майкл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ritchie"
    title: "Michael Ritchie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1561788"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3328750"
    title: "Michael Ritchie"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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