# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fred-sersen
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:09:43.448Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fred-sersen"
name: "Fred Sersen"
slug: "fred-sersen"
description: "Fred Sersen was an American painter and cinema special effects artist working mainly at 20th Century Fox Studios from the 1930s to the 1950s with credits in over 200 movies. He won two Academy Awards for Best Effects, Special Effects (photographic), in 1940 for The Rains Came, and in 1944 for Crash Dive. An artificial lake created for the former film was named in his honor."
tagline: "Czechoslovak/American painter and cinema special effects artist (1890–1962)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1890-02-25"
deathDate: "1962-12-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.46
  momentum:             6.428571428571429
  historical:           8.136249333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0785731/"
    handle:    "nm0785731"
sources:
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Sersen"
    title: "Fred Sersen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فريد سيرسين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Sersen"
    title: "Fred Sersen"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Sersen"
    title: "Fred Sersen"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Sersen"
    title: "Fred Sersen"
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  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%96%D6%80%D5%A5%D5%A4_%D5%8D%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%BD%D5%A5%D5%B6"
    title: "Ֆրեդ Սերսեն"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Sersen"
    title: "Fred Sersen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freds_Sersens"
    title: "Freds Sersens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Sersen"
    title: "Fred Sersen"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8351"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump