# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-schumann
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:57:01.236Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-schumann"
name: "Walter Schumann"
slug: "walter-schumann"
description: "Walter Schumann was an American composer for film, television, and the theater. His notable works include the score for The Night of the Hunter and the Dragnet Theme; the latter of which earned Schumann the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition in 1955. His Broadway musical, 3 for Tonight, won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical in 1955."
tagline: "American composer for film, television, theater (1913–1958)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1913-10-08"
deathDate: "1958-08-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.55
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.480094666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0776739/"
    handle:    "nm0776739"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/687754"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "والتر شومان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "والتر شومان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Schumann_(Komponist)"
    title: "Walter Schumann (Komponist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Schumann"
    title: "Walter Schumann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Schumann"
    title: "Walter Schumann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%B9%D8%B1_%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%85%D9%86"
    title: "والٹر شومن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c3e12de2-b57a-477e-9768-e0c7ee82d0db"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7966085"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/30535"
    title: "Walter Schumann"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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