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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.

Person · Open Library

Born
1939
Died
2015
Works
13

Top works

  • The Nightmares on Elm Street Parts 1, 2, 3
  • A nightmare on Elm Street
  • Mister D & Me
  • Comment survivre dans un film d'horreur
  • Buddies

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1939-08-02
Active to
2015-08-30
Official site

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
663
Total plays
1,892

Tags

underground hip-hopHip-Hop

Wesley Earl "Wes" Craven (born August 2, 1939) is an American film director, writer, producer, and actor, perhaps best known for his work on many thriller/horror films, particularly slasher films. He is the creator of the famed A Nightmare on Elm Street, Wes Craven's New Nightmare, and also co-wrote A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors with Bruce Wagner, featuring the iconic Freddy Krueger character. Craven has also directed the entire Scream series, featuring Ghostface. <a href="https://

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Data Structures for Statistical Computing in Python

    · 2010 · cited 8,334x

  2. Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    · 2016 · cited 4,417x

  3. Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infection: 2009 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

    · 2009 · cited 3,045x

  4. Estimates of the severity of coronavirus disease 2019: a model-based analysis

    · 2020 · cited 2,926x

  5. Estimating the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in Europe

    · 2020 · cited 2,823x

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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).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wes Craven” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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