# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-heise
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:07:15.528Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-heise"
name: "William Heise"
slug: "william-heise"
description: "William Heise was a German-born American film cinematographer and director, active in the 1890s and credited for more than 175 short silent films. Heise filmed a \"We All Smoke\" skit promoting Admiral Cigarettes in 1897."
tagline: "American film director and cinematographer (1847–1910)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Heise.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1847"
deathDate: "1910-02-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.46
  momentum:             0.6738544474393531
  historical:           12.014256
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0374658/"
    handle:    "nm0374658"
sources:
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    title: "ولیم ہیز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%82%A4%E3%82%BB"
    title: "ウィリアム・ハイセ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ويليام هايس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Heise"
    title: "William Heise"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Heise"
    title: "William Heise"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%87%DB%8C%D8%B3"
    title: "ویلیام هیس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Heise"
    title: "William Heise"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Heise"
    title: "William Heise"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Heise"
    title: "William Heise"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B2%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%82_%E0%B4%B9%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D"
    title: "വില്യം ഹീസ്"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Heise"
    title: "William Heise"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Heise"
    title: "William Heise"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Heise"
    title: "William Heise"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2151113"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/110348"
    title: "William Heise"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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