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Wes Craven

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Also known as Wesley Earl Craven, Wesley Craven

American filmmaker (1939–2015)

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Wes Craven was an American male author and artist whose professional career spanned from 1968 to 2015. Born on August 2, 1939, he passed away on August 30, 2015. He had two children and stood at a height of 188.

Craven is associated with several published works, including *The Nightmares on Elm Street Parts 1, 2, 3*, *A nightmare on Elm Street*, *Mister D & Me*, *Comment survivre dans un film d'horreur*, and *Buddies*. Records indicate he had 13 works listed in one database and 5 in another. His music profile includes tags for underground hip-hop and Hip-Hop, with 663 listeners and 1,892 plays. He maintained an official website and had 243,153 social media followers.

Synthesized by Vinony from 24 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

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Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Cleveland
Place of death
Los Angeles
Child
Jonathan Craven
Occupation
producer
Educated at
Wheaton College
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
English language
Notable work
Vampire in Brooklyn
Field of work
acting
Genre
crime film
Official website
www.wescraven.com
Image
Wes Craven 2010.jpg
Height
188
Number of children
2
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start of work period
1968-00-00
Commons category
Wes Craven
date of birth
1939-08-02
date of death
2015-08-30
related category
Category:Films directed by Wes Craven
end of work period
2015-00-00
birth name
Wesley Earl Craven
manner of death
natural causes
social media followers
209103
writing language
English language
member of
Writers Guild of America West
short name
Wes Craven
name in native language
Wes Craven
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Encyclopedic overview

Wesley Earl Craven (August 2, 1939 – August 30, 2015) was an American filmmaker. Amongst his prolific filmography, Craven worked primarily in the horror genre, particularly slasher films, where he mixed horror cliches with humor. Craven has been recognized as one of the masters of the horror genre.

Craven created the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise (1984–present), writing and directing the first film, co-writing and producing the third, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), and writing and directing the seventh, Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994). He directed the first four films in the Scream franchise (1996–2011). He directed cult classics The Last House on the Left (1972) and The Hills Have Eyes (1977), the horror comedy The People Under the Stairs (1991), and psychological thriller Red Eye (2005). His other notable films include Swamp Thing (1982), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), Shocker (1989), Vampire in Brooklyn (1995), and Music of the Heart (1999).

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