# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/earl-hurd
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:43:13.168Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/earl-hurd"
name: "Earl Hurd"
slug: "earl-hurd"
description: "Earl Hurd was a pioneering American animator and film director. He is noted for creating and producing the silent Bobby Bumps animated short subject series for early animation producer J.R. Bray's Bray Productions. Hurd and Bray are jointly responsible for developing the processes involved in cel animation, and were granted patents for their processes in 1914."
tagline: "American animator and film director (1880–1940)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Earl_Hurd%2C_1917.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1880-09-14"
deathDate: "1940-09-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.23
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.217424000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0403319/"
    handle:    "nm0403319"
sources:
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    title: "ارل ہرڈ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "إيرل هيرد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%84_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "ايرل هيرد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Hurd"
    title: "Earl Hurd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%95%CF%81%CE%BB_%CE%A7%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%BD%CF%84"
    title: "Ερλ Χερντ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Hurd"
    title: "Earl Hurd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Hurd"
    title: "Earl Hurd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Hurd"
    title: "Earl Hurd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Hurd"
    title: "Earl Hurd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Hurd"
    title: "Earl Hurd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Hurd"
    title: "Earl Hurd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3046385"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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