# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jack-couffer
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:57:14.840Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jack-couffer"
name: "Jack Couffer"
slug: "jack-couffer"
description: "Jack Craig Couffer A.S.C. was an American cinematographer, film and television director, and author. Couffer specialized in documentary films, often involving nature and animal cinematography. Couffer was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on the film version of the novel Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1974)."
tagline: "American cinematographer and director (1924-2021)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5a/Jack_Couffer.png"
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: "1924-12-07"
deathDate: "2021-07-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.37
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.939489333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0183307/"
    handle:    "nm0183307"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%DA%A9_%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%81%D8%B1"
    title: "جیک کوفر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%83_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "چاك كوفير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Couffer"
    title: "Jack Couffer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Couffer"
    title: "Jack Couffer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Couffer"
    title: "Jack Couffer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Couffer"
    title: "Jack Couffer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2482423"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/114269"
    title: "Jack Couffer"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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