# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nelson-gidding
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:33:41.083Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nelson-gidding"
name: "Nelson Gidding"
slug: "nelson-gidding"
description: "Nelson Roosevelt Gidding was an American screenwriter specializing in film adaptation. A longtime collaboration with director Robert Wise began with Gidding's screenplay for I Want to Live! (1958), which earned him an Oscar nomination. His long-running course on screenwriting adaptions at the University of Southern California inspired screenwriters of the present generation, including David S. Goyer."
tagline: "American writer (1919-2004)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1919-09-15"
deathDate: "2004-05-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.95
  momentum:             14.65116279069767
  historical:           7.411160000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0317254/"
    handle:    "nm0317254"
sources:
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    title: "Nelson Gidding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%BA%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%BA"
    title: "نيلسون غيددينغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Nelson Gidding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Nelson Gidding"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_%DA%AF%DB%8C%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "نلسون گیدینگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Gidding"
    title: "Nelson Gidding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Gidding"
    title: "Nelson Gidding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1977003"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/19459"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump