# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/daniel-l-fapp
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:08:21.265Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/daniel-l-fapp"
name: "Daniel L. Fapp"
slug: "daniel-l-fapp"
description: "Daniel L. Fapp, A.S.C. was an American cinematographer, best known as the director of photography for West Side Story (1961), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography, and The Great Escape (1963). He also was nominated for Academy Awards for his cinematography for Desire Under the Elms (1958), The Five Pennies (1959), One, Two, Three (1961), The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964), Ice Station Zebra (1968) and Marooned (1969)."
tagline: "American cinematographer (1904-1986)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/Ra8pBcmMDwPOoJRB17zfccp5Gx.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1904-04-21"
deathDate: "1986-07-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.86
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.085278666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005701/"
    handle:    "nm0005701"
sources:
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    title: "Фапп, Дэниел"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دانيل ال. فاپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_L._Fapp"
    title: "Daniel L. Fapp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_L._Fapp"
    title: "Daniel L. Fapp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84._%D9%81%D9%BE"
    title: "دانیل ال. فپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_L._Fapp"
    title: "Daniel L. Fapp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_L._Fapp"
    title: "Daniel L. Fapp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_L._Fapp"
    title: "Daniel L. Fapp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q462027"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5806"
    title: "Daniel L. Fapp"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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