# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/simon-west
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:27:15.291Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/simon-west"
name: "Simon West"
slug: "simon-west"
description: "Simon Alexander West is an English filmmaker. He has primarily worked in the action genre, including as the director of Con Air (1997), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), The Mechanic (2011), and The Expendables 2 (2012). Outside of action, he directed the mystery thriller film The General's Daughter (1999) and the psychological horror film When a Stranger Calls (2006)."
tagline: "British film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Reims_polar_2025_1560875_(simon_west).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1961-07-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.13
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.571268
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0922346/"
    handle:    "nm0922346"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://simonwestprod.com/"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Simon West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Simon West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Simon West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Simon West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Simon West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Simon West"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سائمن ویسٹ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "西蒙·韦斯特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump