# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-brickman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:35:39.463Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-brickman"
name: "Paul Brickman"
slug: "paul-brickman"
description: "Paul Brickman is an American screenwriter and film director. He is best known for writing and directing Risky Business."
tagline: "American film director and screenwriter"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/bzzQdcH7DkO0ibRpSKnblWlQ0Ch.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-04-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.94
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.257708000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001887/"
    handle:    "nm0001887"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "باول بريكمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "پول بريكمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Brickman"
    title: "Paul Brickman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Brickman"
    title: "Paul Brickman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Brickman"
    title: "Paul Brickman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Brickman"
    title: "Paul Brickman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Brickman"
    title: "Paul Brickman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Brickman"
    title: "Paul Brickman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%A8%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "پال برک مین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q661685"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57383"
    title: "Paul Brickman"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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