# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/iwao-takamoto
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:57:52.682Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/iwao-takamoto"
name: "Iwao Takamoto"
slug: "iwao-takamoto"
description: "Iwao Takamoto  was an American animator, character designer, television producer, and film director. After his family had been sent to the California internment camps in the early 1940s, Takamoto learned to draw, presented his sketchbook to Walt Disney Productions and was hired on the spot."
tagline: "American animator (1925-2007)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8f/Cropped_Photo_of_Iwao_Takamoto.jpg"
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: "1925-04-29"
deathDate: "2007-01-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.3
  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.996992
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0847314/"
    handle:    "nm0847314"
sources:
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    title: "Такамото, Ивао"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Iwao Takamoto"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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