# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-lustig
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:58:07.663Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-lustig"
name: "William Lustig"
slug: "william-lustig"
description: "William Lustig is an American filmmaker and film distributor, known for his work in the horror genre. His best-known films include Maniac (1980), Vigilante (1982), and Maniac Cop (1988) and its sequels. He is also the founder of the boutique home video label Blue Underground."
tagline: "Film director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/5gX4xUFfX3aRiX95axPbdaj5aIh.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: "1955-02-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.08
  momentum:             0.7336523125996811
  historical:           12.98780666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0527350/"
    handle:    "nm0527350"
sources:
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    title: "ويليام لوستيغ"
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    title: "ويليام لوستيج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "William Lustig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "William Lustig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lustig"
    title: "William Lustig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lustig"
    title: "William Lustig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%8C%DA%AF"
    title: "ویلیام لوستیگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "William Lustig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lustig"
    title: "William Lustig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "William Lustig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%83%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B3%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Вільям Лустіг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "William Lustig"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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