# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-scourby
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:56:35.661Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-scourby"
name: "Alexander Scourby"
slug: "alexander-scourby"
description: "Alexander Scourby was an American film, television, and voice actor and narrator known for his deep and resonant voice and Mid-Atlantic accent. He is best known for his film role as the ruthless mob boss Mike Lagana in Fritz Lang's The Big Heat (1953), and is also particularly well-remembered in the English-speaking world for his landmark recordings of the entire King James Version audio Bible, which have been released in numerous editions. He later recorded the entire Revised Standard Version of the Bible. Scourby was an accomplished narrator, including for 18 episodes of National Geographic Specials from 1966 to 1985. Scourby recorded 422 audiobooks for the blind, which he considered his most important work."
tagline: "American actor (1913–1985)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alexander_Scourby_in_Affair_in_Trinidad_trailer.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1913-11-13"
deathDate: "1985-02-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.45
  momentum:             9.649999999999997
  historical:           10.65602133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0780038/"
    handle:    "nm0780038"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
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    title: "القزندر اسکوربی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alexander Scourby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "알렉산더 스커비"
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    title: "الیگزینڈر سکوربی"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump