# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-crain
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:41:10.070Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-crain"
name: "William Crain"
slug: "william-crain"
description: "William Crain is an American film and television director. He was one of the first black filmmakers from a major film school to achieve commercial success."
tagline: "Horror film director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/4dXbBDP1kMauTlEkfs6ygEz3vbB.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: "1949-06-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.54
  momentum:             7.609950522264981
  historical:           6.615804
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0186091/"
    handle:    "nm0186091"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%85_%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86_(%D9%81%D9%84%D9%85_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B2)"
    title: "ولیم کرین (فلم ساز)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ويليام كرين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ويليام كرين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crain"
    title: "William Crain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crain_(filmmaker)"
    title: "William Crain (filmmaker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crain"
    title: "William Crain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crain"
    title: "William Crain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8007234"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/106540"
    title: "William Crain"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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