# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/theodore-willard-case
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:18:18.602Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/theodore-willard-case"
name: "Theodore Willard Case"
slug: "theodore-willard-case"
description: "Theodore Willard Case was an American chemist who invented the Movietone sound-on-film system."
tagline: "American physicist, inventor (1888–1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Theodore_Case_at_Casowasco.tif?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: "1888-12-12"
deathDate: "1944-05-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.3
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.275990666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1291506/"
    handle:    "nm1291506"
sources:
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    title: "Theodore Case"
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    title: "Theodore Case"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Case"
    title: "Theodore Case"
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  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Case"
    title: "Theodore Case"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A6%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%B3"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Case"
    title: "Theodore Case"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3523686"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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