# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jim-rygiel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:41:10.500Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jim-rygiel"
name: "Jim Rygiel"
slug: "jim-rygiel"
description: "Jim Rygiel is an American visual effects supervisor. He has worked on major feature films since 1984, including The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy and Godzilla. He currently works at FuseFX visual effects studio."
tagline: "American visual effects supervisor"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/r6Eoelv1OGhoW0HJ4JhHQ14crm1.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1955-02-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.78
  momentum:             13.58490566037736
  historical:           6.545609333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0753277/"
    handle:    "nm0753277"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%89%E5%A7%86%C2%B7%E8%90%8A%E5%90%89"
    title: "吉姆·萊吉"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Rygiel"
    title: "Jim Rygiel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Rygiel"
    title: "Jim Rygiel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB"
    title: "ジム・ライジール"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Rygiel"
    title: "Jim Rygiel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%BB%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BC"
    title: "Райгил, Джим"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q722817"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1428201"
    title: "Jim Rygiel"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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