# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tim-whelan
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:18:48.831Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tim-whelan"
name: "Tim Whelan"
slug: "tim-whelan"
description: "Tim Whelan was an American film director, writer, producer and actor, best remembered for his writing credits on Harold Lloyd and Harry Langdon comedies, and for directing mostly British films, such as The Thief of Bagdad (1940)."
tagline: "Film director, writer and producer (1893-1957)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/6ctUaO6q7rDNgCXJMuDgriAC7mq.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1893-11-02"
deathDate: "1957-08-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.77
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.68286666666667
  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/nm0924065/"
    handle:    "nm0924065"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tim Whelan"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Whelan"
    title: "Tim Whelan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%85_%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "تیم ولان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Whelan"
    title: "Tim Whelan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Whelan"
    title: "Tim Whelan"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Whelan"
    title: "Tim Whelan"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tim Whelan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Whelan"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/71788"
    title: "Tim Whelan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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