# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/petro-vlahos
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:43:10.926Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/petro-vlahos"
name: "Petro Vlahos"
slug: "petro-vlahos"
description: "Petro Vlahos was an American engineer and inventor, considered to be one of the pioneering scientific and technical innovators of the motion picture and television industries. He is remembered in particular for creating the Ultimatte process, which refined chroma key or blue screening. For his contributions, Vlahos received three Oscars and an Emmy."
tagline: "American cinema pioneer (1916-2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Petro_Vlahos.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1916-08-20"
deathDate: "2013-02-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.71
  momentum:             15.05464480874317
  historical:           7.679914666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1468620/"
    handle:    "nm1468620"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%BE%D1%81%2C_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE"
    title: "Влахос, Петро"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%88_%DA%A4%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "پيترو ڤلاهوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_Vlahos"
    title: "Petro Vlahos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_Vlahos"
    title: "Petro Vlahos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_Vlahos"
    title: "Petro Vlahos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%AD%CF%84%CF%81%CE%BF_%CE%92%CE%BB%CE%AC%CF%87%CE%BF%CF%82"
    title: "Πέτρο Βλάχος"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_Vlahos"
    title: "Petro Vlahos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_Vlahos"
    title: "Petro Vlahos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_Vlahos"
    title: "Petro Vlahos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4068848"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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