# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-j-folsey
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:19:02.292Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-j-folsey"
name: "George J. Folsey"
slug: "george-j-folsey"
description: "George Joseph Folsey, A.S.C., was an American cinematographer who worked on 162 films from 1914 to his retirement in 1976. He was one of the main cinematographers at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for 27 years and was nominated for 13 Academy Awards and was a pioneer in many cinematography techniques. He was the recipient of the first Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the American Society of Cinematographers in 1988, for whom he had served as president in 1956–1957. Film critic Todd McCarthy called him one of Hollywood's most distinguished cinematographers for 50 years."
tagline: "American cinematographer (1898-1988)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d6/George_Folsey.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1898-07-02"
deathDate: "1988-11-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.01
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.61098
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005706/"
    handle:    "nm0005706"
sources:
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    title: "Джордж Фолсі"
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    title: "چورچ جيه. فولسى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "George J. Folsey"
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    title: "George J. Folsey"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Folsey"
    title: "George Folsey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%DB%8C"
    title: "جرج فالسی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_J._Folsey"
    title: "George J. Folsey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Folsey"
    title: "George Folsey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Folsey"
    title: "George Folsey"
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    title: "Фолси, Джордж"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q329176"
    title: "Wikidata"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12307"
    title: "George J. Folsey"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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