# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-lyon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:50:38.791Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-lyon"
name: "William Lyon"
slug: "william-lyon"
description: "William Austin Lyon was an American film editor, from 1934 to 1971.\nHe was born in Texas, and died in Los Angeles. Employed by Columbia Pictures for most of his career, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing six times, and won twice, for From Here to Eternity (1953) and Picnic (1955)."
tagline: "American film editor (1903-1974)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1903-01-21"
deathDate: "1974-03-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.82
  momentum:             3.109243697478992
  historical:           8.072282666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0528995/"
    handle:    "nm0528995"
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lyon"
    title: "William Lyon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ويليام ليون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "ويليام ليون (مونتير من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Lyon"
    title: "William A. Lyon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lyon_(film_editor)"
    title: "William Lyon (film editor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86_(%D8%AA%D8%AF%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%B1)"
    title: "ویلیام لیون (تدوینگر)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Lyon"
    title: "William A. Lyon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Lyon"
    title: "William A. Lyon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2577710"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3346797"
    title: "William Lyon"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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