# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chris-walas
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:41:46.349Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chris-walas"
name: "Chris Walas"
slug: "chris-walas"
description: "Christopher James Walas is an American special effects artist, make-up effects artist, film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his work on the film The Fly (1986), for which he won an Academy Award and was nominated for two British Academy Film Awards."
tagline: "American special effects artist and film director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/gAN7ltoyXmAz0CHme6RfnUGGxgo.jpg"
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: "1955"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.9
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.851264
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0906901/"
    handle:    "nm0906901"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chris_Walas"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3_(%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85)"
    title: "كريس والاس (مخرج افلام)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chris Walas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Walas"
    title: "Chris Walas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Walas"
    title: "Chris Walas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Walas"
    title: "Chris Walas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Walas"
    title: "Chris Walas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Walas"
    title: "Chris Walas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9"
    title: "クリス・ウェイラス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Walas"
    title: "Chris Walas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Walas"
    title: "Chris Walas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%2C_%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Уолас, Крис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%B3_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "کرس والاس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q355995"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/64875"
    title: "Chris Walas"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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