# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/colin-cantwell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:35:49.479Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/colin-cantwell"
name: "Colin Cantwell"
slug: "colin-cantwell"
description: "Colin James Cantwell was an American concept artist and director known for his work on films like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and WarGames, as well as the TV series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, but primarily for doing creating concept designs and models for a number of Star Wars vehicles, most notably the X-wing fighter, the TIE fighter, the Star Destroyer, the Y-Wing Fighter."
tagline: "American film concept artist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Colin_Cantwell_-_TATE%E2%80%99S_Comics%2C_Lauderhill%2C_Florida_-_March_17%2C_2019_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1932"
deathDate: "2022-05-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.62
  momentum:             3.379310344827586
  historical:           5.501586666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0134764/"
    handle:    "nm0134764"
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Cantwell"
    title: "Colin Cantwell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كولين كانتويل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Cantwell"
    title: "Colin Cantwell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%BD_%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB"
    title: "Колін Кентвелл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A7%91%E6%9E%97%C2%B7%E5%9D%8E%E7%89%B9%E9%9F%8B%E7%88%BE"
    title: "科林·坎特韋爾"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Colin Cantwell"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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