# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-kennedy-dickson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:51:40.693Z

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name: "William Kennedy Dickson"
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description: "William Kennedy Laurie Dickson was a British-American inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison."
tagline: "Scottish photographer and inventor of motion picture cameras (1860-1935)"
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birthDate: "1860-08-03"
deathDate: "1935-09-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump