# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/willy-kurant
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:58:26.174Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/willy-kurant"
name: "Willy Kurant"
slug: "willy-kurant"
description: "Willy Kurant was a Belgian cinematographer. Kurant began as a documentary cameraman before establishing himself as a director of photography for such filmmakers as Agnès Varda, Jean-Luc Godard, Orson Welles, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jerzy Skolimowski, Chris Marker, Maurice Pialat, and Louis C.K."
tagline: "Belgian cinematographer (1934–2021)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/3ZXROmfRPKFs5P7KwNkA1zIisMZ.jpg"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1934-02-15"
deathDate: "2021-05-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.04
  momentum:             1.551724137931034
  historical:           8.543089333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005763/"
    handle:    "nm0005763"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a5eae340-061a-4315-b521-8cbecb12624e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Kurant"
    title: "Willy Kurant"
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    title: "ويلى كورانت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Kurant"
    title: "Willy Kurant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Kurant"
    title: "Willy Kurant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Kurant"
    title: "Willy Kurant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Kurant"
    title: "Willy Kurant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Kurant"
    title: "Willy Kurant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%2C_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8"
    title: "Курант, Вилли"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/38168"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump