# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-alton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:26:44.147Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-alton"
name: "John Alton"
slug: "john-alton"
description: "John Alton was an American cinematographer of Hungarian-German origin. Alton photographed some of the most famous films noir of the classic period and won an Academy Award for the cinematography of An American in Paris (1951), becoming the first Hungarian-born person to do so in the cinematography category. He also worked as a director during the Golden Age of Argentine cinema."
tagline: "American cinematographer of Austrian-Hungarian origin (1901-1996)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Alton_-_Slightly_Scarlet_(1956).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1901-10-05"
deathDate: "1996-06-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.284829721362229
  historical:           10.31915466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    title: "John Alton"
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    title: "John Alton"
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    title: "John Alton"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump