# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/val-lewton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:30:55.021Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/val-lewton"
name: "Val Lewton"
slug: "val-lewton"
description: "Val Lewton was a Russian-American novelist, film producer, and screenwriter best known for a string of low-budget horror films he produced for RKO Pictures in the 1940s. His son, also named Val Lewton, was a painter and exhibition designer."
tagline: "Ukrainian-American writer and film producer (1904–1951)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b2/Val_Lewton_photo.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: "1904-04-24"
deathDate: "1951-03-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.05
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.43755333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0507932/"
    handle:    "nm0507932"
sources:
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    title: "Вел Льютон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Lewton"
    title: "Val Lewton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ڤال ليوتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Lewton"
    title: "Val Lewton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Lewton"
    title: "Val Lewton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84_%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "وال لوتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Lewton"
    title: "Val Lewton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Lewton"
    title: "Val Lewton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ヴァル・リュートン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Lewton"
    title: "Val Lewton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Lewton"
    title: "Val Lewton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%8C%D1%8E%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%92%D1%8D%D0%BB"
    title: "Льютон, Вэл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q221917"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/97047"
    title: "Val Lewton"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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