# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-wong-howe
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:51:50.235Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-wong-howe"
name: "James Wong Howe"
slug: "james-wong-howe"
description: "James Wong Howe, ASC was a Chinese-born American cinematographer and film director, who worked on over 130 films during the Golden Age of Hollywood and well into the 1970s. During the 1930s and 1940s, he was one of the most sought after cinematographers in Hollywood due to his innovative filming techniques. Howe was known as a master of the use of shadow and one of the first to use deep-focus cinematography."
tagline: "Chinese-American film director and cinematographer (1899–1976)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1899-08-28"
deathDate: "1976-07-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump