# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-roemer
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:05:04.563Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-roemer"
name: "Michael Roemer"
slug: "michael-roemer"
description: "Michael Roemer was a German-born American film director, producer and writer. He won several awards for his films, which include Nothing But a Man and The Plot Against Harry. He was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. A professor at Yale University for over 50 years, he was the author of Telling Stories."
tagline: "German-born American filmmaker, professor at Yale University (1928–2025)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Roemer_speaking_at_the_Harvard_Film_Archive.jpg?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: "1928-01-01"
deathDate: "2025-05-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.09
  momentum:             6.066176470588236
  historical:           5.985785333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0736394/"
    handle:    "nm0736394"
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Roemer"
    title: "Michael Roemer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "مايكل رويمير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Roemer"
    title: "Michael Roemer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Roemer"
    title: "Michael Roemer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Roemer"
    title: "Michael Roemer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%84_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%85%D8%B1"
    title: "مائیکل رومر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16090897"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1043404"
    title: "Michael Roemer"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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