# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-trikilis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:23:22.180Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-trikilis"
name: "Michael Trikilis"
slug: "michael-trikilis"
description: "Michael Trikilis was an American film and television producer, known mostly for his involvement with Playboy TV. In 1981, Trikilis, along with Hugh Hefner, developed much of the original programming for \"The Playboy Channel\". Most notably, Trikilis developed the signature \"Playboy style\" of video, which features women, Playboy Playmates and Celebrity Centerfolds, often in dreamlike versions of their everyday lives. He appeared as himself on E!'s reality show The Girls Next Door."
tagline: "American producer"
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: "1940-07-14"
deathDate: "2019-12-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.11
  momentum:             2.692867540029112
  historical:           2.231392
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  61
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0872805/"
    handle:    "nm0872805"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.trikilis.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Trikilis"
    title: "Michael Trikilis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6834956"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/44769"
    title: "Michael Trikilis"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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