# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-garity
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:14:20.587Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-garity"
name: "William Garity"
slug: "william-garity"
description: "William E. Garity was an American inventor and audio engineer who attended the Pratt Institute before going to work for Lee De Forest around 1921. Garity worked with DeForest on the Phonofilm sound-on-film system until 1927, when Pat Powers hired Garity to develop a sound system closely based upon Phonofilm that Powers called Powers Cinephone."
tagline: "American inventor"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0d/Bill_garity_disney.jpg"
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: "1899-04-02"
deathDate: "1971-09-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.95
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.405832
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0307477/"
    handle:    "nm0307477"
sources:
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BBE%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AE%E3%83%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3"
    title: "ウィリアム・E・ギャリティ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Garity"
    title: "William Garity"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Garity"
    title: "William Garity"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Garity"
    title: "William Garity"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Garity"
    title: "William Garity"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%90%D7%9D_%D7%92%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%99"
    title: "ויליאם גארטי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Garity"
    title: "William Garity"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2903226"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1808181"
    title: "William E. Garity"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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