# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-hjortsberg
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:29:49.872Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-hjortsberg"
name: "William Hjortsberg"
slug: "william-hjortsberg"
description: "William Reinhold \"Gatz\" Hjortsberg was an American novelist and screenwriter, who wrote the screenplay of the film Legend."
tagline: "American writer (1941–2017)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/aBl0J1srxTQMfjKBCFql7pkEFAa.jpg"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1941-02-23"
deathDate: "2017-04-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump