# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ben-carruthers
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:08:09.569Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ben-carruthers"
name: "Ben Carruthers"
slug: "ben-carruthers"
description: "Benito F. Carruthers was an American film actor, most notable for his role in John Cassavetes' debut feature film Shadows (1959). His other films included A High Wind in Jamaica (1965), Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen (1967) as Glenn Gilpin, Fearless Frank (1967), To Grab the Ring (1968), The Lost Continent (1968), Riot (1969) as the unpredictable and psychotic Joe Surefoot, Man in the Wilderness (1971), and Universal Soldier (1971)."
tagline: "American actor (1936-1983)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ben_Carruthers_en_Fran%C3%A7oise_Brion_(cropped)_-_Ben_Carruthers.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: "1936-08-14"
deathDate: "1983-09-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.73
  momentum:             3.766386802179996
  historical:           9.749466666666669
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0141092/"
    handle:    "nm0141092"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Ben Carruthers"
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    title: "بين كاروثرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%B2"
    title: "بين كاروثرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8E%D9%86_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AA%DB%8E%D8%B1%D8%B2"
    title: "بێن کاروتێرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carruthers"
    title: "Ben Carruthers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carruthers"
    title: "Ben Carruthers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carruthers"
    title: "Ben Carruthers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carruthers"
    title: "Ben Carruthers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carruthers"
    title: "Ben Carruthers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%86_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AA%DA%BE%D8%B1%D8%B2"
    title: "بین کیروتھرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2895358"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Ben Carruthers"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump