# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/douglas-trumbull
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:53:11.261Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/douglas-trumbull"
name: "Douglas Trumbull"
slug: "douglas-trumbull"
description: "Douglas Hunt Trumbull was an American film director and visual effects supervisor, who pioneered innovative methods in special effects. He created scenes for 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Blade Runner and The Tree of Life, and directed the movies Silent Running and Brainstorm."
tagline: "American film director, special effects designer (1942–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Douglas_Trumbull_FMX_2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1942-04-08"
deathDate: "2022-02-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.529169308814204
  historical:           18.06327333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0874320"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump