# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-houston
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:04:13.537Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-houston"
name: "Robert Houston"
slug: "robert-houston"
description: "Robert \"Bobby\" Houston is an American filmmaker and actor. He made his acting debut in The Hills Have Eyes (1977) before becoming a film director and screenwriter. His films include Shogun Assassin (1980) and Bad Manners (1984). Later in his career, Houston became a successful documentarian. He won an Emmy Award for the film Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks (2002) and an Academy Award for the film Mighty Times: The Children's March (2004) in 2005."
tagline: "Film actor, director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/kn7wenFzYZOSNP6kQqGAHHADhND.jpg"
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: "1955-11-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.07
  momentum:             9.06649765705972
  historical:           10.99122133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0396884/"
    handle:    "nm0396884"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%B9_%DB%81%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%B9%D9%86_(%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "رابرٹ ہیوسٹن (اداکار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Houston_(actor)"
    title: "Robert Houston (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "روبرت هوستون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "روبرت هوستون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%95%DB%86%D8%A8%DB%8E%D8%B1%D8%AA_%DA%BE%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%86"
    title: "ڕۆبێرت ھیوستن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Houston_(Schauspieler)"
    title: "Robert Houston (Schauspieler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%87%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_(%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C%DA%AF%D8%B1)"
    title: "رابرت هیوستون (بازیگر)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Houston"
    title: "Robert Houston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Houston_(attore)"
    title: "Robert Houston (attore)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Houston"
    title: "Robert Houston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D1%8C%D1%8E%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82_(%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%82%D1%91%D1%80)"
    title: "Хьюстон, Роберт (актёр)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82_%D0%A5%D1%98%D1%83%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Роберт Хјустон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3435420"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/43980"
    title: "Robert Houston"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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