# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-box
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:44:55.176Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-box"
name: "John Box"
slug: "john-box"
description: "John Allan Hyatt Box OBE was a British film production designer and art director. He won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction on four occasions and won the equivalent BAFTA three times, a record for both awards. Throughout his career he gained a reputation for recreating exotic locations in rather more mundane surroundings; he once created a walled Chinese city in Snowdonia."
tagline: "British film production designer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9d/John_Box_Oliver_scene.jpg/330px-John_Box_Oliver_scene.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1920-01-27"
deathDate: "2005-03-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.21
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.743089333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0101501/"
    handle:    "nm0101501"
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Box"
    title: "John Box"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "جون بوكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Box"
    title: "John Box"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Box"
    title: "John Box"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Box"
    title: "John Box"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Box"
    title: "John Box"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Box"
    title: "John Box"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Box"
    title: "John Box"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Box"
    title: "John Box"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q327391"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/13321"
    title: "John Box"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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