# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eric-saarinen
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:42:36.366Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eric-saarinen"
name: "Eric Saarinen"
slug: "eric-saarinen"
description: "Eric Saarinen was an American cinematographer and film director. His parents were the architect Eero Saarinen and his first wife, the sculptor Lilian Swann Saarinen."
tagline: "American cinematographer (1942–2024)"
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: "1942-06-26"
deathDate: "2024-12-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.75
  momentum:             1.66475302889096
  historical:           4.443668
  currentAttention:     2
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0754363/"
    handle:    "nm0754363"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Saarinen"
    title: "Eric Saarinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Saarinen"
    title: "Eric Saarinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Saarinen"
    title: "Eric Saarinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%86"
    title: "ایرک سارینن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1351601"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/73784"
    title: "Eric Saarinen"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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