# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/billie-mae-richards
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:00:56.204Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/billie-mae-richards"
name: "Billie Mae Richards"
slug: "billie-mae-richards"
description: "Billie Mae Richards was a Canadian actress who also appeared onstage and on television. She was the voice of Rankin/Bass' version of the Christmas character Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer from 1964 to 1979, and of the Kid in the radio series Jake and the Kid."
tagline: "Canadian actress (1921–2010)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a3/Billie_Mae_Richards.jpg/330px-Billie_Mae_Richards.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1921-11-21"
deathDate: "2010-09-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.84
  momentum:             4.719876131183113
  historical:           7.507778666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0723982/"
    handle:    "nm0723982"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a7c941c6-8f40-4eb9-b5a2-8bd19a22042b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Mae_Richards"
    title: "Billie Mae Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%B2"
    title: "بيلي ماي ريتشاردز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%89_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%B2"
    title: "بيلى ماى ريتشاردز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Mae_Richards"
    title: "Billie Mae Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Mae_Richards"
    title: "Billie Mae Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B9%8C%EB%A6%AC_%EB%A7%A4_%EB%A6%AC%EC%B2%98%EC%A6%88"
    title: "빌리 매 리처즈"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%84%DB%8C_%D9%85%DB%92_%D8%B1%DA%86%D8%B1%DA%88%D8%B2"
    title: "بلی مے رچرڈز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q588212"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/105638"
    title: "Billie Mae Richards"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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