# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-mirisch
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:22:47.507Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-mirisch"
name: "Walter Mirisch"
slug: "walter-mirisch"
description: "Walter Mortimer Mirisch was an American film producer. He was the president and executive head of production of The Mirisch Corporation, an independent film production company which he formed in 1957 with his brother, Marvin, and half-brother, Harold. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture as producer of In the Heat of the Night (1967)."
tagline: "American film producer (1921–2023)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fc/Walter_Mirisch_%282%29.jpg/330px-Walter_Mirisch_%282%29.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: "1921-11-08"
deathDate: "2023-02-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.42
  momentum:             1.319018404907975
  historical:           15.61303733333333
  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/nm0592387/"
    handle:    "nm0592387"
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    title: "Walter Mirisch"
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    title: "Walter Mirisch"
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    title: "Walter Mirisch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Walter Mirisch"
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    title: "Walter Mirisch"
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    title: "Walter Mirisch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Walter Mirisch"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Walter Mirisch"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump