# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-sills
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:57:49.656Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-sills"
name: "Paul Sills"
slug: "paul-sills"
description: "Paul Sills was an American director and improvisation teacher, and the original director of Chicago's The Second City."
tagline: "American theatre director (1927-2008)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1927-11-18"
deathDate: "2008-06-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.65
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.84086
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0798131/"
    handle:    "nm0798131"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/4936843"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B3"
    title: "بول سيلس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Sills"
    title: "Paul Sills"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Sills"
    title: "Paul Sills"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Sills"
    title: "Paul Sills"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Sills"
    title: "Paul Sills"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/97e62652-afc5-4dbb-940d-b00b1225a341"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7153610"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1233230"
    title: "Paul Sills"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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