# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/syd-field
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:40:45.469Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/syd-field"
name: "Syd Field"
slug: "syd-field"
description: "Sydney Alvin Field was an American author who wrote several books on screenwriting, the first being Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting. He led workshops and seminars about producing salable screenplays. Hollywood film producers use Field's ideas on structure to measure the potential of screenplays."
tagline: "American screenwriting guru (1935-2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Syd_Field_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1935-12-19"
deathDate: "2013-11-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    url:       "http://sydfield.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump