# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edwin-stanton-porter
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:31:35.644Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edwin-stanton-porter"
name: "Edwin Stanton Porter"
slug: "edwin-stanton-porter"
description: "Edwin Stanton Porter was an American film pioneer, most famous as a producer, director, studio manager and cinematographer with the Edison Manufacturing Company and the Famous Players Film Company. Of over 250 films created by Porter, his most important include What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City (1901), Jack and the Beanstalk (1902), Life of an American Fireman (1903), The Great Train Robbery (1903), The European Rest Cure (1904), The Kleptomaniac (1905), Life of a Cowboy (1906), Rescued from an Eagle's Nest (1908), The Prisoner of Zenda (1913), and Tess of the Storm Country (1914)."
tagline: "American film pioneer (1870–1941)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edwin_S_Porter.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: "1870-04-21"
deathDate: "1941-04-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.129817444219067
  historical:           20.81289333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0692105/"
    handle:    "nm0692105"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump