# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-neil
# Generated: 2026-08-20T19:49:56.622Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-neil"
name: "Bill Neil"
slug: "bill-neil"
description: "Bill Neil is an American visual effects artist. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Visual Effects for the film Poltergeist II: The Other Side. He is the younger brother of documentary filmmaker Eleanor Coppola."
tagline: "American visual effects artist"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1939-09-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.43
  momentum:             0.9352517985611511
  historical:           3.083082666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  48
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0624666/"
    handle:    "nm0624666"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Neil"
    title: "Bill Neil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Neil_(visual_effects_artist)"
    title: "Bill Neil (visual effects artist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22107364"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1774842"
    title: "Bill Neil"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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