# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-nicholas-selig
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:01:09.719Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-nicholas-selig"
name: "William Nicholas Selig"
slug: "william-nicholas-selig"
description: "William Nicholas Selig was a vaudeville performer and pioneer of the American motion picture industry. His stage billing as Colonel Selig would be used for the rest of his career, even as he moved into film production."
tagline: "American actor and filmmaker (1864–1948)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Selig.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: "1864-03-14"
deathDate: "1948-07-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.53
  momentum:             15.86784233454049
  historical:           13.76026133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0783152/"
    handle:    "nm0783152"
sources:
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    title: "William Selig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "وليام نيكولاس سيليج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Nicholas_Selig"
    title: "William Nicholas Selig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Selig"
    title: "William Selig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Selig"
    title: "William Selig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%DA%AF"
    title: "ویلیام سیلیگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Selig"
    title: "William Selig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%90%D7%9D_%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%A1_%D7%96%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%92"
    title: "ויליאם ניקולס זליג"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Nicholas_Selig"
    title: "William Nicholas Selig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Nicholas_Selig"
    title: "William Nicholas Selig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Nicholas_Selig"
    title: "William Nicholas Selig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Selig"
    title: "William Selig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Nicholas_Selig"
    title: "William Nicholas Selig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B3%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Селиг, Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Nicholas_Selig"
    title: "William Nicholas Selig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q452737"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/29535"
    title: "William Nicholas Selig"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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