# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruth-orkin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:32:17.761Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruth-orkin"
name: "Ruth Orkin"
slug: "ruth-orkin"
description: "Ruth Orkin was an American photographer, photojournalist, and filmmaker, with ties to New York City and Hollywood. Known for her photograph An American Girl in Italy (1951), she photographed many celebrities and personalities including Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Ava Gardner, Tennessee Williams, Marlon Brando, and Alfred Hitchcock."
tagline: "American photographer and filmmaker (1921-1985)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/oalIlez9apkCe6pwRHBDb3IDgQE.jpg"
gender: "female"
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: "1921-09-03"
deathDate: "1985-01-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.28
  momentum:             15
  historical:           14.92095466666667
  currentAttention:     15.2
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0649907/"
    handle:    "nm0649907"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://orkinphoto.com/"
sources:
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    title: "روتھ اورکن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "روث أوركين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AB_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "روث اوركين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Orkin"
    title: "Ruth Orkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Orkin"
    title: "Ruth Orkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A1%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%B8_%CE%8C%CF%81%CE%BA%CE%B9%CE%BD"
    title: "Ρουθ Όρκιν"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Orkin"
    title: "Ruth Orkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Orkin"
    title: "Ruth Orkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "روت اورکین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Orkin"
    title: "Ruth Orkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Orkin"
    title: "Ruth Orkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Orkin"
    title: "Ruth Orkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Orkin"
    title: "Ruth Orkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Orkin"
    title: "Ruth Orkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%82"
    title: "Оркин, Рут"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Orkin"
    title: "Ruth Orkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%82_%D0%9E%D1%80%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BD"
    title: "Рут Оркін"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q469449"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1072338"
    title: "Ruth Orkin"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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