# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/merian-c-cooper
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:21:38.733Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/merian-c-cooper"
name: "Merian C. Cooper"
slug: "merian-c-cooper"
description: "Merian Caldwell Cooper was an American filmmaker, actor, producer and military aviator. In film, his most famous work was the 1933 movie King Kong, and he is credited as co-inventor of the Cinerama film projection process. He was awarded an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement in 1952 and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. He was a passionate anti-communist."
tagline: "American aviator, actor, director and producer (1893-1973)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Merian_Cooper.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1893-10-24"
deathDate: "1973-04-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.071428571428571
  historical:           22.27546666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0178260"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump