# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/norman-mclaren
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:24:41.496Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/norman-mclaren"
name: "Norman McLaren"
slug: "norman-mclaren"
description: "William Norman McLaren, was a Scottish-Canadian animator, director and producer known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). He was a pioneer in a number of areas of animation and filmmaking, including hand-drawn animation, drawn-on-film animation, visual music, abstract film, pixilation and graphical sound. McLaren was also an artist and printmaker, and explored his interest in dance in his films."
tagline: "Scottish Canadian animator (1914-1987)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Norman_McLaren_drawing_on_film_-_1944.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
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  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1914-04-11"
deathDate: "1987-01-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump