# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carl-boenish
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:44:37.143Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carl-boenish"
name: "Carl Boenish"
slug: "carl-boenish"
description: "Carl Ronald Boenish, considered the father of modern BASE jumping, was an American freefall cinematographer, who in 1978 filmed the first jumps from El Capitan using ram-air parachutes."
tagline: "American cinematographer and BASE jumper (1941–1984)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Boenish_Trollevggen_1984_n2_crop.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1941-04-03"
deathDate: "1984-07-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.66
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.253285333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0091292/"
    handle:    "nm0091292"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%88%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB"
    title: "Бениш, Карл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B4"
    title: "كارل بوينيش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Boenish"
    title: "Carl Boenish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B4"
    title: "کارل بونیش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Boenish"
    title: "Carl Boenish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Boenish"
    title: "Carl Boenish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4083809"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2672135"
    title: "Carl Boenish"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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