James Cameron James Cameron James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian filmmaker, philanthropist, and deep-sea explorer. After working in special effects, he found major success after directing and writing the science fiction action film "The Terminator" (1984). He then became a popular Hollywood director and was hired to write and direct "Aliens" (1986); three years later he followed up with "The Abyss" (1989). He found further critical acclaim for his use of special effects in "" (1991). After his film "True Lies" (1994), Cameron took on his biggest film at the time, "Titanic" (1997), which earned him Academy Awards
James Davidson Stuart Cameron in Dacca, Pakistan. A sum of £5000 was left to the College by Sir James Cameron to form a fund, called the Sir James Cameron Medal, the interest to be used to assist in financing the St Andrew’s Day Festival for educational purposes. He died of a heart attack during his chairing of a meeting of the Edinburgh Medical Library on 13 February 1969. The Lancet published his obituary on 22 February. He married Esther Johanne Frederickson-Dover (of an Indian missionary family) in 1929 but they had no children. James Davidson Stuart Cameron Sir James Davidson Stuart Cameron, (1900 –