# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/willis-h-o-brien
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:01:27.918Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/willis-h-o-brien"
name: "Willis H. O'Brien"
slug: "willis-h-o-brien"
description: "Willis Harold O'Brien, known as Obie O'Brien, was an American motion picture special effects and stop-motion animation pioneer, who according to ASIFA-Hollywood \"was responsible for some of the best-known images in cinema history,\" and is best remembered for his work on The Lost World (1925), King Kong (1933), The Last Days of Pompeii (1935) and Mighty Joe Young (1949), for which he won the 1950 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects."
tagline: "American animator (1886–1962)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Willis_O'Brien_in_1931.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Designers"
  slug: "designers"
profileType:
  name: "Designer"
  slug: "designer"
birthDate: "1886-03-02"
deathDate: "1962-11-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.94482266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 237
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0639891"
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    title: "Вілліс Гарольд О'Браєн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Willis H. O'Brien"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump