# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-r-booth
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:56:16.917Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-r-booth"
name: "Walter R. Booth"
slug: "walter-r-booth"
description: "Walter Robert Booth was a British magician and early pioneer of British film. Collaborating with Robert W. Paul and then Charles Urban mostly on \"trick\" films, he pioneered techniques that led to what has been described as the first British animated film, The Hand of the Artist (1906). Booth is also notable for making the earliest film adaptation of A Christmas Carol with the silent film Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost (1901)."
tagline: "British magician and early pioneer of British film (1869–1938)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ef/Photograph_of_Walter_R_Booth_published_in_1898_%28Davenport_Collection%29.jpeg/330px-Photograph_of_Walter_R_Booth_published_in_1898_%28Davenport_Collection%29.jpeg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1869-07-12"
deathDate: "1938"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.68
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.609864
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0095816/"
    handle:    "nm0095816"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%83%D1%84%2C_%D0%A3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Буф, Уолтер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%A2%D8%B1._%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AB"
    title: "والتر آر. بوث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%A2%D8%B1._%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AB"
    title: "والتر آر. بوث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_R._Booth"
    title: "Walter R. Booth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_R._Booth"
    title: "Walter R. Booth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AB"
    title: "والتر رابرت بوث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_R._Booth"
    title: "Walter R. Booth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_R._Booth"
    title: "Walter R. Booth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_R._Booth"
    title: "Walter R. Booth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_R._Booth"
    title: "Walter R. Booth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134062"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1086950"
    title: "Walter R. Booth"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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