# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ted-kotcheff
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:07:56.544Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ted-kotcheff"
name: "Ted Kotcheff"
slug: "ted-kotcheff"
description: "William Theodore Kotcheff was a Canadian director and producer of film, television, and theatre. He worked at various times in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He was known for having directed such films as the seminal Australian New Wave picture Wake in Fright (1971), the Mordecai Richler adaptations The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) and Joshua Then and Now (1985), the original Rambo film First Blood (1982), and the comedies Fun with Dick and Jane (1977), North Dallas Forty (1979), and Weekend at Bernie's (1989)."
tagline: "Canadian film and television director (1931–2025)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/43/Cropped_Photo_of_Ted_Kotcheff.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1931-04-07"
deathDate: "2025-04-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.318888
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0467646/"
    handle:    "nm0467646"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump