# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-churchill-demille
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:02:26.936Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-churchill-demille"
name: "William Churchill deMille"
slug: "william-churchill-demille"
description: "William Churchill deMille, also spelled de Mille or De Mille, was an American screenwriter and film director from the silent film era through the early 1930s. He was also a noted playwright prior to moving into film. Once he was established in film he specialized in adapting Broadway plays into silent films."
tagline: "American screenwriter and film director (1878-1955)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Young_William_C._de_Mille.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1878-07-25"
deathDate: "1955-03-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.65
  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.32239466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0210352/"
    handle:    "nm0210352"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "William C. deMille"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump