# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-struss
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:18:11.783Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-struss"
name: "Karl Struss"
slug: "karl-struss"
description: "Karl Struss, A.S.C. was an American photographer and a cinematographer of the 1900s through the 1950s. He was also one of the earliest pioneers of 3-D films. While he mostly worked on films, such as F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans and Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator and Limelight, he was also one of the cinematographers for the television series Broken Arrow and photographed 19 episodes of My Friend Flicka."
tagline: "American photographer and cinematographer (1886-1981)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karl_Struss_1912.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1886-11-30"
deathDate: "1981-12-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.58
  momentum:             5.612903225806452
  historical:           17.49402666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0835365"
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    title: "Կարլ Սթրաս"
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    title: "Karl Struss"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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