# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-freund
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:48:18.428Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-freund"
name: "Karl Freund"
slug: "karl-freund"
description: "Karl W. Freund, A.S.C. was a German Bohemian and American cinematographer and film director. He is best known for photographing Metropolis (1927), Dracula (1931), and television's I Love Lucy (1951–1957), and for directing The Mummy (1932). Freund was an innovator in the field of cinematography, often noted for pioneering the unchained camera technique, arguably the most important stylistic innovation of the 20th century, setting the stage for some of the most commonly used cinematic techniques of modern contemporary cinema."
tagline: "German film director and cinematographer (1890-1969)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karl-Freund-1932.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1890-01-16"
deathDate: "1969-05-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             28.58369098712446
  historical:           20.41771733333334
  currentAttention:     4.84
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005713/"
    handle:    "nm0005713"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump