# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/moustapha-akkad
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:16:42.273Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/moustapha-akkad"
name: "Moustapha Akkad"
slug: "moustapha-akkad"
description: "Moustapha al Akkad was a Syrian-American film producer and director, best known for producing the original series of Halloween films and directing The Message and Lion of the Desert. He was killed along with his daughter Rima Al Akkad Monla in the 2005 Amman bombings. He is also the cousin of television personality star Tareq Salahi."
tagline: "American film director (1930–2005)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/27/Moustapha_Akkad.gif"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1930-07-01"
deathDate: "2005-11-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.01696266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump