# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jules-brulatour
# Generated: 2026-08-20T19:51:54.871Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jules-brulatour"
name: "Jules Brulatour"
slug: "jules-brulatour"
description: "Pierre Ernest Jules Brulatour was a pioneering executive figure in American silent cinema. Beginning as American distribution representative for Lumiere Brothers raw film stock in 1907, he joined producer Carl Laemmle in forming the Motion Picture Distributing and Sales Company in 1909, effectively weakening the stronghold of the Motion Picture Patents Company, headed by Thomas Edison, a large trust company that was then monopolizing the American film industry through contracts with hand-picked, established studios. By 1911 Brulatour was president of the Sales Company. He was a founder of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, later known as Universal Pictures."
tagline: "American film producer (1870–1946)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Committee_on_Public_Information_-_Personnel_-_Jules_E._Brulatour%2C_Director_of_Foreign_Picture_Section%2C_Committee_on_Public_Information_-_NARA_-_26432665_(page_1)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
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: "1870-04-07"
deathDate: "1946-10-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.7
  momentum:             7.111111111111112
  historical:           3.536105333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0115873/"
    handle:    "nm0115873"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Brulatour"
    title: "Jules Brulatour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Brulatour"
    title: "Jules Brulatour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Brulatour"
    title: "Jules Brulatour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6305765"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3720972"
    title: "Jules Brulatour"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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