# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pat-o-neill
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:43:18.502Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pat-o-neill"
name: "Pat O'Neill"
slug: "pat-o-neill"
description: "Patrick O'Neill is an American independent experimental filmmaker and artist who has also worked in the special effects industry. Although his work embraces an extremely wide technical and aesthetic scope, he is perhaps best known for his startling, surrealistic, and humorous film compositions achieved through a mastery of the optical printer. His films and other artworks often reveal a complex and mysterious interest in the connections and clashes between the natural world and human civilization. O'Neill has also produced a prodigious body of work in drawing, collage, sculpture, installation, and many other media."
tagline: "American filmmaker (born 1939)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pat_O'Neill.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1939"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.96
  momentum:             3.896103896103897
  historical:           5.282074666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0642271/"
    handle:    "nm0642271"
sources:
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_O'Neill"
    title: "Pat O'Neill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84_(%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%AC)"
    title: "بات أونيل (مخرج)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "بات اونيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_O'Neill_(filmmaker)"
    title: "Pat O'Neill (filmmaker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_O'Neill"
    title: "Pat O'Neill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7143873"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1065736"
    title: "Pat O'Neill"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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