---
name: "Christopher Gore"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/christopher-gore"
fi1m_id: "christopher-gore"
imdb_id: "nm0330731"
tmdb_id: 32383
wikidata_id: "Q2966584"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "10 August 1944"
died: "18 May 1988"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T17:03:40.574777+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Christopher Gore

## Identity

Christopher Gore

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/christopher-gore
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** christopher-gore
- **IMDb ID:** nm0330731
- **TMDB ID:** 32383
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2966584
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Gore_(writer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2966584, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0330731/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/32383

Writer. Born 10 August 1944 in Fort Lauderdale. Died 18 May 1988.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 10 August 1944, Fort Lauderdale
- **Died:** 18 May 1988
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Gore_(writer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2966584, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0330731/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/32383

## Biography

Christopher Gore was an American screenwriter, playwright and lyricist. He was born on 10 August 1944 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and died on 18 May 1988 in Santa Monica, California. He is best known for writing the screenplay for the 1980 musical film *Fame*, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. The film also led to a television series that ran from 1982 to 1987, for which he served as creator and wrote episodes.

Gore graduated from Northwestern University and began his career writing plays and musicals. His early works include the 1967 musical *Mary*, produced in Fort Lauderdale, the 1972 Broadway rock musical *Via Galactica* (co-written with Judith Ross and Galt MacDermot), and the 1977 musical *Nefertiti*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Fame* (1980), Fi1m 70, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/fame.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Closet* (2014), Director
- *Fame* (2009), Writer
- *Fame* (1982), series, Creator
- *Faeries* (1981), Story
- *Fame* (1980), Writer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/fame.md)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1981: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Fame*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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