# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ernest-day
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:28:24.956Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ernest-day"
name: "Ernest Day"
slug: "ernest-day"
description: "Ernest Day, B.S.C. was a British cinematographer and director of film and television, known for his collaborations with David Lean and Lewis Gilbert. He spent the majority of his career as a camera operator, often referred to Lean as his \"eyes\", and was the first British cameraman to operate a 70mm film camera. He was nominated for an Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Lean's final film A Passage to India (1984)."
tagline: "British cinematographer (1927-2006)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1927-04-15"
deathDate: "2006-11-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.11
  momentum:             0.6024096385542169
  historical:           6.142837333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005680/"
    handle:    "nm0005680"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Day"
    title: "Ernest Day"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "ايرنيست داى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Day"
    title: "Ernest Day"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Day"
    title: "Ernest Day"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Day"
    title: "Ernest Day"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Day"
    title: "Ernest Day"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1356284"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/47846"
    title: "Ernest Day"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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