# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rick-prelinger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:12:47.981Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rick-prelinger"
name: "Rick Prelinger"
slug: "rick-prelinger"
description: "Rick Prelinger is an American archivist, writer, and filmmaker. He is also professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Prelinger is best known as the founder of the Prelinger Archives, a collection of 60,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films acquired by the Library of Congress in 2002 after 20 years' operation."
tagline: "American archivist, writer and filmmaker (born 1953)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RickprelingerCCweblog.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1953"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.62
  momentum:             8.680106335844041
  historical:           5.951009333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1150553/"
    handle:    "nm1150553"
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Prelinger"
    title: "Rick Prelinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%BE%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "ريك پريلينجير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Prelinger"
    title: "Rick Prelinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Prelinger"
    title: "Rick Prelinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Prelinger"
    title: "Rick Prelinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Prelinger"
    title: "Rick Prelinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2579903"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/996491"
    title: "Rick Prelinger"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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