# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-t-rucker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:18:18.662Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-t-rucker"
name: "Joseph T. Rucker"
slug: "joseph-t-rucker"
description: "Joseph T. Rucker was an American cinematographer who won the Academy Award along with Willard Van der Veer at the 3rd Academy Awards in 1930 for Best Cinematography for the film With Byrd at the South Pole. He and Van der Veer won their Oscars for camera work for Admiral Byrd's 1928 and 1930 expeditions to Antarctica. In the latter expedition, he and Van der Veer brought back over 160,000 feet (49,000 m) of raw footage."
tagline: "United States cinematographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph_T._Rucker%2C_exp%C3%A9dition_Byrd_(partant_pour_l'Antarctique)_(Pacific)_-_btv1b532033500.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1887-01-01"
deathDate: "1957-10-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.602628
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0748530/"
    handle:    "nm0748530"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joseph T. Rucker"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_T._Rucker"
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    title: "Ջոզեֆ Ռաքեր"
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    title: "Ракер, Джозеф"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump