# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-ernest-williamson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:15:11.297Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-ernest-williamson"
name: "John Ernest Williamson"
slug: "john-ernest-williamson"
description: "John Ernest Williamson was an English filmmaker who invented the \"photosphere\" from which he filmed and photographed undersea. He is credited as being the first person to take an underwater photograph from a submarine."
tagline: "English photographer, filmmaker and inventor of the photosphere (1881-1966)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Ernest_Williamson_-_Dec_1920_EH.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1881-12-08"
deathDate: "1966-07-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.56
  momentum:             8.333333333333334
  historical:           5.270158666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0932048/"
    handle:    "nm0932048"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ernest_Williamson"
    title: "John Ernest Williamson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con_Ernest_Vilyamson"
    title: "Con Ernest Vilyamson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ernest_Williamson"
    title: "John Ernest Williamson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ernest_Williamson"
    title: "John Ernest Williamson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ernest_Williamson"
    title: "John Ernest Williamson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6231879"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/105956"
    title: "J. Ernest Williamson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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