# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-courage
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:34:37.935Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-courage"
name: "Alexander Courage"
slug: "alexander-courage"
description: "Alexander Mair Courage Jr. familiarly known as \"Sandy\" Courage, was an American orchestrator, arranger, and composer of music, primarily for television and film. He is best known as the composer of the theme music for the original Star Trek series."
tagline: "American orchestrator, arranger, and composer of music, primary for television and film (1919-2008)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/nVTrM70knWjQcOvATsu2Uric9sl.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1919-12-10"
deathDate: "2008-05-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.1976495726495726
  historical:           17.40205733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0006021"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump