# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pat-proft
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:02:30.169Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pat-proft"
name: "Pat Proft"
slug: "pat-proft"
description: "Pat Proft is an American comedy writer, actor, and director. Born in Minnesota in 1947, Proft began his career at Dudley Riggs' Brave New Workshop in Minneapolis in the mid-1960s. He went on to perform as a one-man comedy act in the late 1960s. In 1972, Proft began working at The Comedy Store in Hollywood which led to work in television and film writing for the Smothers Brothers and Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker."
tagline: "American screenwriter"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/wf35jpTpuD4ev7fy79gJQ00J4w8.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947-04-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.38
  momentum:             5.554347826086957
  historical:           11.33939733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/pat.proft.5"
    handle:    "pat.proft.5"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0698493/"
    handle:    "nm0698493"
sources:
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    title: "پیٹ پروفیٹ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پات پروفت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Proft"
    title: "Pat Proft"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Proft"
    title: "Pat Proft"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%AA_%D9%BE%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%AA"
    title: "پت پرافت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Proft"
    title: "Pat Proft"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Proft"
    title: "Pat Proft"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Proft"
    title: "Pat Proft"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8C%BB_%ED%94%84%EB%A1%9C%ED%94%84%ED%8A%B8"
    title: "팻 프로프트"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Proft"
    title: "Pat Proft"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84%D1%82%2C_%D0%9F%D1%8D%D1%82"
    title: "Профт, Пэт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82_%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84%D1%82"
    title: "Пет Профт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q263607"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12991"
    title: "Pat Proft"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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