# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-j-kern
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:27:25.987Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-j-kern"
name: "Robert J. Kern"
slug: "robert-j-kern"
description: "Robert James Kern was an American film editor with more than sixty feature film credits. He is known for editing National Velvet (1944), which won him the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. National Velvet was one of thirteen films that Kern edited with director Clarence Brown. He also made seven films with director W. S. Van Dyke, including three of the Thin Man series. Kern was nominated for the Academy Award for David Copperfield (1935), which was directed by George Cukor."
tagline: "American film editor (1885-1972)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1885-03-29"
deathDate: "1972-05-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.86
  momentum:             1.428571428571428
  historical:           7.204608
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0449493/"
    handle:    "nm0449493"
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._Kern"
    title: "Robert J. Kern"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%8A_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86"
    title: "روبرت جاي كيرن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kern_(Filmeditor)"
    title: "Robert Kern (Filmeditor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A1%CF%8C%CE%BC%CF%80%CE%B5%CF%81%CF%84_%CE%A4%CE%B6._%CE%9A%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%BD"
    title: "Ρόμπερτ Τζ. Κερν"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._Kern"
    title: "Robert J. Kern"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%AC%DB%8C._%DA%A9%D8%B1%D9%86"
    title: "رابرت جی. کرن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kern"
    title: "Robert Kern"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2157833"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/32439"
    title: "Robert Kern"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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