# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fred-ott
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:50:43.469Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fred-ott"
name: "Fred Ott"
slug: "fred-ott"
description: "Frederick Paul Ott was an American skilled machinist and key employee of Thomas Edison's laboratories from the 1870s until Edison's death in 1931. His likeness appears in two of the earliest surviving motion pictures – the well-known Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze and the little-seen Fred Ott Holding a Bird – both from 1894."
tagline: "American scientist and film actor (1860–1934)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fred_Ott.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: "1860-08-31"
deathDate: "1934-10-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.2
  momentum:             0.3742203742203742
  historical:           10.48463066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0653028/"
    handle:    "nm0653028"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Ott"
    title: "Fred Ott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "فريد اوت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Ott"
    title: "Fred Ott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Ott"
    title: "Fred Ott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "فرد اوت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Ott"
    title: "Fred Ott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Ott"
    title: "Fred Ott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%88"
    title: "フレッド・オット"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Ott"
    title: "Fred Ott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Ott"
    title: "Fred Ott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Ott"
    title: "Fred Ott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2313156"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1120786"
    title: "Fred Ott"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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