# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alex-thomson-q489174
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:51:48.458Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alex-thomson-q489174"
name: "Alex Thomson"
slug: "alex-thomson-q489174"
description: "Alexander Thomson BSC was an English cinematographer, active from the late-1960s through the early-2000s. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on John Boorman's Excalibur (1981)."
tagline: "British cinematographer"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/domqBVvZGOJbO2VrpevvvxEhjbE.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1929-01-12"
deathDate: "2007-06-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.37
  momentum:             2.152466367713004
  historical:           12.037332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004287/"
    handle:    "nm0004287"
sources:
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    title: "Alex Thomson (bioskopografan)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3_%D8%AB%D9%88%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "اليكس ثومسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Thomson_(Kameramann)"
    title: "Alex Thomson (Kameramann)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Thomson_(cinematographer)"
    title: "Alex Thomson (cinematographer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Thomson"
    title: "Alex Thomson"
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    title: "الکس تامسون (فیلم‌بردار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Thomson_(directeur_de_la_photographie)"
    title: "Alex Thomson (directeur de la photographie)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Thomson"
    title: "Alex Thomson"
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    title: "Томсон, Алекс"
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    title: "Alex Thomson"
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    title: "Алекс Томсон"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/21516"
    title: "Alex Thomson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump