# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stefen-fangmeier
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:35:48.425Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stefen-fangmeier"
name: "Stefen Fangmeier"
slug: "stefen-fangmeier"
description: "Stefen Markus Fangmeier is an American visual effects supervisor and film director. He worked on numerous major feature films, including Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Saving Private Ryan, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Twister, The Perfect Storm and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. He also has been a second unit director for two films, Dreamcatcher (2003) and Galaxy Quest (1999). After more than 15 years of visual effects work, Fangmeier moved into feature film directing with his debut on Eragon, which was released in 2006 to negative critic reviews but was a box office success."
tagline: "Visual effects supervisor"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/1GstBGq6Iv53cApZQmTgS6Ix17f.jpg"
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: "1960-12-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.26
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.09579066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0266777/"
    handle:    "nm0266777"
sources:
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    title: "اسٹیفن فینگمیئر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ستيفين فانجمير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Stefen Fangmeier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefen_Fangmeier"
    title: "Stefen Fangmeier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefen_Fangmeier"
    title: "Stefen Fangmeier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefen_Fangmeier"
    title: "Stefen Fangmeier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefen_Fangmeier"
    title: "Stefen Fangmeier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefen_Fangmeier"
    title: "Stefen Fangmeier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefen_Fangmeier"
    title: "Stefen Fangmeier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefen_Fangmeier"
    title: "Stefen Fangmeier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Фангмейер, Стефан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8301"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/25453"
    title: "Stefen Fangmeier"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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