# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-wager
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:53:56.965Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-wager"
name: "Walter Wager"
slug: "walter-wager"
description: "Walter Herman Wager was an American crime and espionage-thriller novelist and former editor-in-chief of Playbill magazine. The movie Telefon, starring Charles Bronson, was inspired by his novel of the same name. His book 58 Minutes was adapted into Die Hard 2, starring Bruce Willis."
tagline: "American novelist (1924-2004)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Walter_Wager.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1924-09-04"
deathDate: "2004-07-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.14
  momentum:             1.066035107272221
  historical:           7.014328
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0905709/"
    handle:    "nm0905709"
sources:
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Wager"
    title: "Walter Wager"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "والتر ويجر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Wager"
    title: "Walter Wager"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Wager"
    title: "Walter Wager"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Wager"
    title: "Walter Wager"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Wager"
    title: "Walter Wager"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Wager"
    title: "Walter Wager"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4018041"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1641795"
    title: "Walter Wager"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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