# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-macdonald
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:51:17.094Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-macdonald"
name: "Joseph MacDonald"
slug: "joseph-macdonald"
description: "Joseph Patrick MacDonald, A.S.C. was a Mexico-born American cinematographer. An assistant cameraman from the early 1920s, he became a cinematographer in the 1940s and soon was working on Hollywood productions, mostly at 20th Century Fox. He was usually billed as Joe MacDonald. He was the first Mexico-born cinematographer, and only the second overall, after Leon Shamroy, to film a movie in CinemaScope, as well as the first Mexico-born cinematographer to film a movie in Deluxe Color."
tagline: "American cinematographer (1906-1968)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1906-12-15"
deathDate: "1968-05-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.72
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.214832
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0531796/"
    handle:    "nm0531796"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_MacDonald"
    title: "Joseph MacDonald"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_(%D9%85%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1)"
    title: "جوزيف ماكدونالد (مصور)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%85%D9%83%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF"
    title: "چوزيف مكدونالد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_MacDonald"
    title: "Joseph MacDonald"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_MacDonald_(cinematographer)"
    title: "Joseph MacDonald (cinematographer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%81_%D9%85%DA%A9%E2%80%8C%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%84%D8%AF"
    title: "جوزف مک‌دانلد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_MacDonald"
    title: "Joseph MacDonald"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q345800"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/30288"
    title: "Joseph MacDonald"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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