# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-stears
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:14:14.823Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-stears"
name: "John Stears"
slug: "john-stears"
description: "John Stears was an English special effects artist. A two-time Academy Award winner, nicknamed the \"Dean of Special Effects,\" and \"The Real Q\", he was responsible for creating a host of iconic movie gadgets and effects, including James Bond's lethal Aston Martin DB5, Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder, the Jedi Knights' lightsabers, the Death Star, and the robots R2-D2 and C-3PO."
tagline: "British special effects expert (1934–1999)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Stears.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1934-08-25"
deathDate: "1999-04-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.822932
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0824210/"
    handle:    "nm0824210"
sources:
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    title: "John Stears"
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    title: "John Stears"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stears"
    title: "John Stears"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stears"
    title: "John Stears"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stears"
    title: "John Stears"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stears"
    title: "John Stears"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%A1"
    title: "ג'ון סטירס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA"
    title: "ジョン・スティアーズ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stears"
    title: "John Stears"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%80%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Стирс, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2735964"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1249768"
    title: "John Stears"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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