# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-l-van-enger
# Generated: 2026-08-15T14:27:48.306Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-l-van-enger"
name: "Richard L. Van Enger"
slug: "richard-l-van-enger"
description: "Richard van Enger was an American film editor who made his debut as an assistant on Gone with the Wind in 1939. Up until his retirement in 1976, he worked on a myriad of projects - mainly B movies - before moving to television in the 1950s where he worked on such shows as Bonanza, The High Chaparral and Alias Smith and Jones. He received an Academy Award nomination for his work on the John Wayne flagwaver Sands of Iwo Jima in 1949."
tagline: "American film editor (1914-1984)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1914-06-20"
deathDate: "1984-03-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.77
  momentum:             0.1515151515151515
  historical:           6.335745333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0886820/"
    handle:    "nm0886820"
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_L._Van_Enger"
    title: "Richard L. Van Enger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A5%D9%84._%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A5%D9%86%D8%BA%D8%B1"
    title: "ريتشارد إل. فان إنغر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84._%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%B1"
    title: "ريتشارد ال. فان انجر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_L._Van_Enger"
    title: "Richard L. Van Enger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_L._Van_Enger"
    title: "Richard L. Van Enger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84._%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%B1"
    title: "ریچارد ال. ون انگر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3672095"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/120518"
    title: "Richard L. Van Enger"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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