# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andy-rooney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:42:53.103Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andy-rooney"
name: "Andy Rooney"
slug: "andy-rooney"
description: "Andrew Aitken Rooney was an American radio and television writer who was best known for his weekly broadcast \"A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney\", a part of the CBS News program 60 Minutes from 1978 to 2011. His final regular appearance on 60 Minutes aired on October 2, 2011; he died a month later at the age of 92."
tagline: "Writer, humorist, television personality (1911-2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Andy_Rooney_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1919-01-14"
deathDate: "2011-11-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             10
  historical:           18.24035333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0740299/"
    handle:    "nm0740299"
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    title: "Andy Rooney"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump