# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ted-tally
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:07:48.530Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ted-tally"
name: "Ted Tally"
slug: "ted-tally"
description: "Ted Tally is an American playwright and screenwriter. He adapted the Thomas Harris novel The Silence of the Lambs into the film of the same name, for which he received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, the Writers Guild of America Award, the Chicago Film Critics Award, and the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America."
tagline: "American playwright"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1952-04-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.19
  momentum:             0.6158505805148916
  historical:           12.94237466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0848217/"
    handle:    "nm0848217"
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Tally"
    title: "Ted Tally"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "تيد تالى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Tally"
    title: "Ted Tally"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Tally"
    title: "Ted Tally"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Tally"
    title: "Ted Tally"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Tally"
    title: "Ted Tally"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%AF_%D8%AA%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "تد تلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Tally"
    title: "Ted Tally"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Tally"
    title: "Ted Tally"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%98%D7%93_%D7%98%D7%9C%D7%99"
    title: "טד טלי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Tally"
    title: "Ted Tally"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BF%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC"
    title: "テッド・タリー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Tally"
    title: "Ted Tally"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Tally"
    title: "Ted Tally"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%8D%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%B4"
    title: "Тэлли, Тед"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q721671"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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