# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-connell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:26:08.138Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-connell"
name: "Richard Connell"
slug: "richard-connell"
description: "Richard Edward Connell Jr. was an American author, screenwriter, and journalist. He is best known for his 1924 short story \"The Most Dangerous Game.\" Connell was one of the most popular American short story writers of his time. His stories were published in The Saturday Evening Post and Collier's. He had equal success as a journalist and screenwriter and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1942 for the movie Meet John Doe (1941), directed by Frank Capra and based on his 1922 short story \"A Reputation.\""
tagline: "American author and journalist (1893-1949)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Connell%2C_circa_1923.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1893-10-17"
deathDate: "1949-11-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.46
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.40767333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0175028/"
    handle:    "nm0175028"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "ريتشارد كونيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Connell (Autor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Connell"
    title: "Richard Connell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Connell"
    title: "Richard Connell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Connell"
    title: "Richard Connell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ریچارد کانل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Connell"
    title: "Richard Connell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Connell"
    title: "Richard Connell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Connell"
    title: "Richard Connell"
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    title: "Коннелл, Ричард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Connell"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3790184"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20500"
    title: "Richard Connell"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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