# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/morris-engel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:46:42.511Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/morris-engel"
name: "Morris Engel"
slug: "morris-engel"
description: "Morris Engel was an American photographer, cinematographer and filmmaker best known for making the first good-quality, internationally recognized American film \"independent\" of Hollywood studios, Little Fugitive (1953), in collaboration with his wife, photographer Ruth Orkin, and their friend, writer Raymond Abrashkin."
tagline: "American photographer and filmmaker (1918-2005)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/jFr3RfJiRiLuefjEJOwNBpK71KL.jpg"
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: "1918-04-08"
deathDate: "2005-03-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.98
  momentum:             15
  historical:           8.545753333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0257129/"
    handle:    "nm0257129"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.engelphoto.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%84"
    title: "مورس اینجل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A5%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%84"
    title: "موريس إنجل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%84"
    title: "موريس انجل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Engel"
    title: "Morris Engel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Engel"
    title: "Morris Engel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Engel"
    title: "Morris Engel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Engel"
    title: "Morris Engel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Engel"
    title: "Morris Engel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Engel"
    title: "Morris Engel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1948483"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1072337"
    title: "Morris Engel"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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