# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/van-nest-polglase
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:32:33.698Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/van-nest-polglase"
name: "Van Nest Polglase"
slug: "van-nest-polglase"
description: "Van Nest Polglase was an American art director. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. Best remembered as head of the design department at RKO Pictures, he worked on 333 films between 1925 and 1957."
tagline: "Art director (1898-1968)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/6oae7yPKHVsIIF2usz3n7ZTlv4A.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1898-08-25"
deathDate: "1968-12-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.96
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.672714666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0689026/"
    handle:    "nm0689026"
sources:
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    title: "وین نیسٹ پولگلیس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Nest_Polglase"
    title: "Van Nest Polglase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Nest_Polglase"
    title: "Van Nest Polglase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Nest_Polglase"
    title: "Van Nest Polglase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Nest_Polglase"
    title: "Van Nest Polglase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Nest_Polglase"
    title: "Van Nest Polglase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Nest_Polglase"
    title: "Van Nest Polglase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Nest_Polglase"
    title: "Van Nest Polglase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1474823"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11036"
    title: "Van Nest Polglase"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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