# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sidney-carroll
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:24:11.211Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sidney-carroll"
name: "Sidney Carroll"
slug: "sidney-carroll"
description: "Sidney Carroll was an American film and television screenwriter. Although Carroll wrote most frequently for television, he is perhaps best remembered today for writing the screenplays for The Hustler (1961) for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and for A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966), based on his TV play Big Deal in Laredo (1962)."
tagline: "American screenwriter"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1913-05-25"
deathDate: "1988-11-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.12
  momentum:             15.47872340425532
  historical:           5.273758666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0140987/"
    handle:    "nm0140987"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Carroll"
    title: "Sidney Carroll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%86%D9%8A_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "سيدني كارول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%86%D9%89_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "سيدنى كارول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Carroll"
    title: "Sidney Carroll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Carroll"
    title: "Sidney Carroll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15503071"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14876"
    title: "Sidney Carroll"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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