# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-greaves
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:13:20.208Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-greaves"
name: "William Greaves"
slug: "william-greaves"
description: "William Garfield Greaves was an American filmmaker and actor. Trained at the Actors Studio, he worked as a stage and film actor but became disillusioned with the roles available to Black performers, and transitioned into a career as a pioneering documentarian at the highest of the civil rights movement. He produced more than 200 documentaries, and wrote and directed more than half of these. He garnered many accolades for his work, including four Emmy nominations."
tagline: "American documentary filmmaker (1926–2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Greaves_Illustration_for_Wiki_Unseen.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: "1926-10-08"
deathDate: "2014-08-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.27
  momentum:             25
  historical:           6.725532
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0337348/"
    handle:    "nm0337348"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/23c99998-a241-4061-b943-509a5ef291cd"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%BA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%B2_(%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%AC)"
    title: "ويليام غريفز (مخرج)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%B2"
    title: "ويليام جريفز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Greaves"
    title: "William Greaves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Greaves"
    title: "William Greaves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Greaves"
    title: "William Greaves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%85_%DA%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "ولیم گریوز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8010139"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/131468"
    title: "William Greaves"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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