# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-mercer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:14:45.587Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-mercer"
name: "Sam Mercer"
slug: "sam-mercer"
description: "Sam Mercer was an American film producer of many films directed by M. Night Shyamalan such as The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs, as well as other films like Van Helsing and Things We Lost in the Fire. His career started during the early 1980s as a location manager and later advanced to a producer and executive producer. He also produced Shyamalan's films The Happening and The Last Airbender. He died from an early onset of Alzheimer's disease on February 12, 2024, at the age of 69."
tagline: "American film producer"
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: "1954"
deathDate: "2024-02-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.51
  momentum:             0.6811145510835913
  historical:           8.758173333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0580303/"
    handle:    "nm0580303"
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Mercer"
    title: "Sam Mercer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "سام ميرسير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "سام ميرسير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Mercer"
    title: "Sam Mercer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Mercer"
    title: "Sam Mercer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%85_%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%B1"
    title: "سم مرسر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Mercer"
    title: "Sam Mercer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Mercer"
    title: "Sam Mercer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A1%D1%8D%D0%BC"
    title: "Мерсер, Сэм"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369195"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/136"
    title: "Sam Mercer"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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