# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elgin-lessley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:21:40.970Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elgin-lessley"
name: "Elgin Lessley"
slug: "elgin-lessley"
description: "Elgin Lessley was an American hand-crank cameraman of the silent film era—a period of filmmaking when virtually all special effects work had to be produced inside the camera during filming. Though Lessley worked earlier with Roscoe \"Fatty\" Arbuckle, and later with Harry Langdon, he is best known for the groundbreaking effects he produced with Buster Keaton, who dubbed him \"the human metronome\" for his ability to crank consistently at any requested speed."
tagline: "American cinematographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%D0%AD%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B8.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1883-01-10"
deathDate: "1944-01-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.96
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.206048
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0504380/"
    handle:    "nm0504380"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BB%D1%96"
    title: "Елджин Леслі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "الجين ليسلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgin_Lessley"
    title: "Elgin Lessley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgin_Lessley"
    title: "Elgin Lessley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "الگین لسلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgin_Lessley"
    title: "Elgin Lessley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B8%2C_%D0%AD%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Лессли, Элджин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3050858"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10522"
    title: "Elgin Lessley"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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