# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-urban
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:10:36.119Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-urban"
name: "Charles Urban"
slug: "charles-urban"
description: "Charles Urban was a German-American film producer and distributor, and one of the most significant figures in British cinema before the First World War. He was a pioneer of the documentary, educational, propaganda and scientific film, as well as being the producer of the world's first successful motion picture colour system."
tagline: "Anglo-American film producer and entrepreneur"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_Urban%2C_film_innovator_(SAYRE_10677).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1867-04-14"
deathDate: "1942-08-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.38
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.878582666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0881616/"
    handle:    "nm0881616"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B7_%D0%A3%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Чарльз Урбан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "تشارلز يوربان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "تشارلز يوربان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Urban"
    title: "Charles Urban"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Urban"
    title: "Charles Urban"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Urban"
    title: "Charles Urban"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B7"
    title: "Урбан, Чарльз"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Urban"
    title: "Charles Urban"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2960355"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/129166"
    title: "Charles Urban"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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