# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-alves
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:24:05.494Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-alves"
name: "Joe Alves"
slug: "joe-alves"
description: "Joseph Manuel Alves is an American film production designer, perhaps best known for his work on Close Encounters of the Third Kind and the first three films of the Jaws franchise. He directed the third installment Jaws 3-D."
tagline: "Film designer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joe_Alves_in_San_Francisco%2C_2013.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1936-05-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.02
  momentum:             5.471028470025461
  historical:           13.641724
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0023469/"
    handle:    "nm0023469"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "جو ألفيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جو الفيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Alves"
    title: "Joe Alves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Alves"
    title: "Joe Alves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Alves"
    title: "Joe Alves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Alves"
    title: "Joe Alves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%A2%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "جو آلوز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Alves"
    title: "Joe Alves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Alves"
    title: "Joe Alves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Alves"
    title: "Joe Alves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Alves"
    title: "Joe Alves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%BEo_Alve%C5%A1s"
    title: "Džo Alvešs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Alves"
    title: "Joe Alves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Alves"
    title: "Joe Alves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B3"
    title: "جو الویس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1691324"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8558"
    title: "Joe Alves"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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