# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arthur-sheekman
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:52:49.722Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arthur-sheekman"
name: "Arthur Sheekman"
slug: "arthur-sheekman"
description: "Arthur Sheekman was an American theater and movie critic, columnist, playwright, and editor—but best known for his writing for the screen. His specialty was light comedy. Groucho Marx called him \"The Fastest Wit in the West.\""
tagline: "American theater and movie critic, columnist, playwright and editor (1901-1978)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/nuDd4Delhv1DP03kMDRmblNKWyY.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1901-02-05"
deathDate: "1978-01-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.05
  momentum:             0.4240282685512368
  historical:           4.446044
  currentAttention:     2.355712603062427
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0790654/"
    handle:    "nm0790654"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%B1%D8%AB%D8%B1_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "آرثر شيكمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Sheekman"
    title: "Arthur Sheekman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Sheekman"
    title: "Arthur Sheekman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/0d6417f1-5929-4483-9a38-dc5af0208f23"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4800271"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/30010"
    title: "Arthur Sheekman"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations