# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-fox
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:08:53.311Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-fox"
name: "William Fox"
slug: "william-fox"
description: "Vilmos Fried, known professionally as William Fox, was a Hungarian-American film industry executive who founded the Fox Film Corporation in 1915 and the Fox West Coast Theatres chain in the 1920s. Although he lost control of his film businesses in 1930, his name was used by 20th Century Fox and continues to be used in the trademarks of the present-day Fox Corporation, including the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox News, Fox Sports, and Foxtel."
tagline: "Hungarian-American film producer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Fox_1921.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: "1879-01-01"
deathDate: "1952-05-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.3
  momentum:             0.8284652150823156
  historical:           22.087964
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0289301/"
    handle:    "nm0289301"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "William Fox"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wilhelm Fried"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "William Fox (Produzent)"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fox_(producer)"
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    title: "William Fox"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fox_(productor)"
    title: "William Fox (productor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ուիլիըմ Ֆոքս (արտադրիչ)"
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    title: "William Fox"
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    title: "William Fox"
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    title: "ウィリアム・フォックス (映画プロデューサー)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "윌리엄 폭스 (영화 제작자)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fox_(penerbit)"
    title: "William Fox (penerbit)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fox_(filmproducent)"
    title: "William Fox (filmproducent)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fox_(produsent)"
    title: "William Fox (produsent)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fox_(filmowiec)"
    title: "William Fox (filmowiec)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fox"
    title: "William Fox"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9078"
    title: "William Fox"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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