# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-shirley
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:57:52.549Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-shirley"
name: "Bill Shirley"
slug: "bill-shirley"
description: "William Jesse Shirley was an American actor and tenor/lyric baritone singer who later became a Broadway theatre producer. He is perhaps best known as the speaking and singing voice of Prince Phillip in Walt Disney's 1959 animated classic Sleeping Beauty and for dubbing Jeremy Brett's singing voice in the 1964 film version of My Fair Lady."
tagline: "American actor, singer, Broadway theatre producer (1921-1989)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/07/Bill_Shirley%2C_Actor_in_a_black_and_white_portrait.jpg"
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: "1921-07-06"
deathDate: "1989-08-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.97
  momentum:             8.313953488372093
  historical:           11.288308
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0794301/"
    handle:    "nm0794301"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Bill Shirley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بيل شيرلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "بيل شيرلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%DA%B5_%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "بیڵ شیرلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Shirley"
    title: "Bill Shirley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Shirley"
    title: "Bill Shirley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Shirley"
    title: "Bill Shirley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Shirley"
    title: "Bill Shirley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Shirley"
    title: "Bill Shirley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Shirley"
    title: "Bill Shirley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%84_%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "بل شرلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f16ca061-ead4-4334-a087-6fc2612de70b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2903350"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/67288"
    title: "Bill Shirley"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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