# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-whitney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:02:12.488Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-whitney"
name: "John Whitney"
slug: "john-whitney"
description: "John Hales Whitney Sr. was an American animator, composer and inventor, widely considered to be one of the pioneers of computer animation."
tagline: "American animator (1917-1995)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/John_Whitney_%28animator%29.gif?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
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: "1917-04-08"
deathDate: "1995-09-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.34
  momentum:             6.446540880503145
  historical:           6.227473333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1124970/"
    handle:    "nm1124970"
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Whitney%2C_Sr."
    title: "John Whitney, Sr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%86%D9%8A_(%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%AC)"
    title: "جون ويتني (مخرج)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%86%D9%89_(%D9%85%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%86)"
    title: "جون ويتنى (ملحن)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Whitney"
    title: "John Whitney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%86%D9%86_%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AA%D9%86%DB%8C"
    title: "جۆن ویتنی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Whitney_(animator)"
    title: "John Whitney (animator)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Whitney"
    title: "John Whitney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3182739"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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