# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/w-d-richter
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:56:39.621Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/w-d-richter"
name: "W. D. Richter"
slug: "w-d-richter"
description: "Walter Duch Richter is an American screenwriter, film director and film producer. He is best known for adapting Invasion of the Body Snatchers, directing The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension and co-writing Big Trouble in Little China."
tagline: "Film director, producer, screenwriter"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/aTY722RFijftIoDFtfyoxJtplQj.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: "1945-12-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.37
  momentum:             2.276955852763641
  historical:           7.055728
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0725379/"
    handle:    "nm0725379"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%88%D8%A8%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88_%DA%88%DB%8C_%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%B9%D8%B1"
    title: "ڈبلیو ڈی ریکٹر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88._%D8%AF._%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AE%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "دبليو. د. ريختر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88._%D8%AF._%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AE%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "دبليو. د. ريختر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._D._Richter"
    title: "W. D. Richter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._D._Richter"
    title: "W. D. Richter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._D._Richter"
    title: "W. D. Richter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._D._Richter"
    title: "W. D. Richter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1300032"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18179"
    title: "W.D. Richter"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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