# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-robinson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:49:49.564Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-robinson"
name: "Bill Robinson"
slug: "bill-robinson"
description: "Bill \"Bojangles\" Robinson, was an American tap dancer, actor, and singer, the best known and the most highly paid black entertainer in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. His long career mirrored changes in American entertainment tastes and technology. His career began in the age of minstrel shows and moved to vaudeville, Broadway theatre, the recording industry, Hollywood films, radio, and television."
tagline: "American dancer and actor (1877/1878–1949)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bill_Bojangles_Robinson_1942.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: "1878-05-25"
deathDate: "1949-11-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           57.83
  momentum:             10.89971346704871
  historical:           20.90512133333333
  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/nm0732408/"
    handle:    "nm0732408"
sources:
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    title: "Bill Robinson"
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    title: "Bill Robinson"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بل رابنسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "比爾·羅賓遜"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump