# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steven-craig-zahler
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:21:10.941Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/steven-craig-zahler"
name: "Steven Craig Zahler"
slug: "steven-craig-zahler"
description: "Steven Craig Zahler is an American screenwriter, director, novelist and composer. After beginning his career working briefly as a cinematographer, Zahler focused on screenwriting until he made his directorial debut with Bone Tomahawk (2015). He followed this up with Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017) and Dragged Across Concrete (2018), all of which he wrote and composed the music for. He has also authored several novels and graphic novels."
tagline: "American film director and screenwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/S._Craig_Zahler_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1973-01-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.328655996491998
  historical:           12.358036
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0951975"
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    url:       "https://www.scraigzahler.com"
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    title: "اس کریگ زالر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump