# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roger-nygard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:30:39.477Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roger-nygard"
name: "Roger Nygard"
slug: "roger-nygard"
description: "Roger Nygard is an American director, editor, producer, and author. As a director he has worked on Tales of the Unknown (1990), High Strung (1991), Back to Back (1996), Trekkies (1997), and Suckers (2001). He also directed For Whom The Belt Tolls and What Would Jason Do?, episodes of The Bernie Mac Show, and Grief Counseling, an episode from the American television comedy series The Office."
tagline: "Director, editor, screenwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roger_Nygard_at_the_2011_Humanist_Film_Festival.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: "1962-03-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.607668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/roger.nygard1"
    handle:    "roger.nygard1"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0638630/"
    handle:    "nm0638630"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.RogerNygard.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "روجير نيجارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Nygard"
    title: "Roger Nygard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Nygard"
    title: "Roger Nygard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Nygard"
    title: "Roger Nygard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%B1_%D9%86%DB%8C%DA%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%88"
    title: "راجر نیگارڈ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3940097"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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