# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/morton-heilig
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:38:02.556Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/morton-heilig"
name: "Morton Heilig"
slug: "morton-heilig"
description: "Morton Leonard Heilig was an American pioneer in virtual reality (VR) technology and a filmmaker. He applied his cinematographer experience and with the help of his partner developed the Sensorama over several years from 1957, patenting it in 1962."
tagline: "American inventor"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1926-12-22"
deathDate: "1997-05-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.72
  momentum:             1.904761904761905
  historical:           7.010656
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0374147/"
    handle:    "nm0374147"
sources:
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Heilig"
    title: "Morton Heilig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Heilig"
    title: "Morton Heilig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Heilig"
    title: "Morton Heilig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Heilig"
    title: "Morton Heilig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Heilig"
    title: "Morton Heilig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Heilig"
    title: "Morton Heilig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Heilig"
    title: "Morton Heilig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6914872"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3346706"
    title: "Morton Heilig"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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