# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/volker-engel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:24:30.034Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/volker-engel"
name: "Volker Engel"
slug: "volker-engel"
description: "Volker Engel is a German special effects artist who is best known as one of the people who won at the 69th Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects on the film Independence Day. He won with Douglas Smith, Clay Pinney and Joe Viskocil. in 1999, he founded the visual effects company Uncharted Territory, LLC with Marc Weigert."
tagline: "Visual Effects Artist"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/msWFKQfQuKU4GufMQ25G4nQIVmo.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1965-02-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.84
  momentum:             1.538461538461538
  historical:           7.011844
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0257159/"
    handle:    "nm0257159"
sources:
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    title: "Volker Engel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volker_Engel"
    title: "Volker Engel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volker_Engel"
    title: "Volker Engel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B1_%D8%A5%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%84"
    title: "فولكر إنجل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%84"
    title: "فولكر انجل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volker_Engel"
    title: "Volker Engel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volker_Engel"
    title: "Volker Engel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123592"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/27952"
    title: "Volker Engel"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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