# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roger-o-hirson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:48:14.143Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roger-o-hirson"
name: "Roger O. Hirson"
slug: "roger-o-hirson"
description: "Roger Overholt Hirson was an American dramatist and screenwriter best known for his books of the Broadway musicals, Pippin, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award, and Walking Happy. He contributed extensively for original television anthology series episodes since the 1950s and also wrote the screenplays or stories for several prominent films such as The Bridge at Remagen (1969)."
tagline: "American writer (1926–2019)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1926-05-05"
deathDate: "2019-05-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.84
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.947085333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0386678/"
    handle:    "nm0386678"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/64ed537b-47da-40bc-82a7-ce4440602e4e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AC%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%88.%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "روجر او.هيرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_O._Hirson"
    title: "Roger O. Hirson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_O._Hirson"
    title: "Roger O. Hirson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_O._Hirson"
    title: "Roger O. Hirson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_O._Hirson"
    title: "Roger O. Hirson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3439329"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/127535"
    title: "Roger O. Hirson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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