# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-bassman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:31:57.021Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-bassman"
name: "Don Bassman"
slug: "don-bassman"
description: "Don Bassman was an American sound engineer and VP of Special Sound Projects at 20th Century Fox. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for Patton and was nominated for Die Hard, The Abyss and The Hunt for Red October in the same category. He also won an Emmy Award for Eleanor and Franklin."
tagline: "Sound engineer (1928-1993)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1928-04-02"
deathDate: "1993-01-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.74
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.003024
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0060318/"
    handle:    "nm0060318"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%94%90%C2%B7%E5%B7%B4%E6%96%AF%E6%9B%BC"
    title: "唐·巴斯曼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "دون بسمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_J._Bassman"
    title: "Don J. Bassman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Bassman"
    title: "Don Bassman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Bassman"
    title: "Don Bassman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Bassman"
    title: "Don Bassman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Bassman"
    title: "Don Bassman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1239201"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1338830"
    title: "Don J. Bassman"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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