# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/judy-irola
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:44:47.619Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/judy-irola"
name: "Judy Irola"
slug: "judy-irola"
description: "Judith Carol Irola was an American cinematographer, film producer, and director. The third woman accepted into the American Society of Cinematographers, she was head of the cinematography department at USC School of Cinematic Arts for 15 years and held the Conrad Hall Chair in Cinematography there. Irola co-founded a National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians branch in San Francisco in 1969, and was a founding member of the short-lived Cine Manifest film collective in 1972."
tagline: "American cinematographer (1943-2021)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3c/Photo_of_Judy_Irola.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1943-11-23"
deathDate: "2021-02-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.44
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.936609333333334
  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/nm0410062/"
    handle:    "nm0410062"
sources:
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Irola"
    title: "Judy Irola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Irola"
    title: "Judy Irola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Irola"
    title: "Judy Irola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Irola"
    title: "Judy Irola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Irola"
    title: "Judy Irola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Irola"
    title: "Judy Irola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15445520"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/213254"
    title: "Judy Irola"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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