# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-bluhdorn
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:53:07.093Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-bluhdorn"
name: "Charles Bluhdorn"
slug: "charles-bluhdorn"
description: "Charles George Bluhdorn was an Austrian-born American industrialist. He built his fortune in auto parts and commodities such as zinc, and following a 1966 acquisition became CEO, chairman and president of the Hollywood movie studio Paramount Pictures. Paramount was a former subsidiary of Gulf and Western Industries, which Bluhdorn purchased in 1956 when it was called the Michigan Plating and Stamping Company."
tagline: "American industrialist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d6/Charles_Bluhdorn.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1926-09-20"
deathDate: "1983-02-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.16
  momentum:             16.77786233386832
  historical:           7.68008
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0089602/"
    handle:    "nm0089602"
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bluhdorn"
    title: "Charles Bluhdorn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bluhdorn"
    title: "Charles Bluhdorn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bluhdorn"
    title: "Charles Bluhdorn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bluhdorn"
    title: "Charles Bluhdorn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bluhdorn"
    title: "Charles Bluhdorn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bluhdorn"
    title: "Charles Bluhdorn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bluhdorn"
    title: "Charles Bluhdorn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Bluhdorn"
    title: "Charlie Bluhdorn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2958573"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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