# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-tarmey
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:01:18.805Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-tarmey"
name: "Bill Tarmey"
slug: "bill-tarmey"
description: "Bill Tarmey was an English actor and singer, best known for playing Jack Duckworth in the soap opera Coronation Street. First appearing in the role in November 1979, he played it continuously from 1981 to 2010."
tagline: "English actor and singer (1941–2012)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9b/Jack_duckworth.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1941-04-04"
deathDate: "2012-11-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.61
  momentum:             0.9712230215827338
  historical:           6.490072
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0850528/"
    handle:    "nm0850528"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/746151"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%89"
    title: "بيل تارمى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Tarmey"
    title: "Bill Tarmey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Tarmey"
    title: "Bill Tarmey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Tarmey"
    title: "Bill Tarmey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Tarmey"
    title: "Bill Tarmey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f3b190d0-0e01-44dd-ac99-fb1b53a22f8e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36185"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1215185"
    title: "William Tarmey"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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