# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/billy-ruge
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:15:12.595Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/billy-ruge"
name: "Billy Ruge"
slug: "billy-ruge"
description: "Billy Ruge was an American film actor. His early career was spent as an aerial trapeze acrobat in an act with partner Bill Frobel: Ruge and Frobel played Montreal in 1899, and shared a bill at London's Hippodrome with W. C. Fields, Houdini, and Sandow over the Easter holiday of 1904. According to Ruge, prior to playing his first silent film part- for Edison- he had \"just returned from a seven years' engagement in the variety houses of Germany, England, France, Russia, South America, Belgium, and Spain.\" Ruge eventually appeared in 64 films between 1915 and 1922, mostly one-reeler Comedy Shorts. He frequently worked for Actor/Director Willard Louis, filming in Jacksonville, Florida for the minor studios Lubin Studios, the Vim Comedy Company, and the Jaxon Film Corporation."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dukes_and_Dollars_(1918).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: "1885"
deathDate: "1955-10-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.93
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.268898666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0749381/"
    handle:    "nm0749381"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Ruge"
    title: "Billy Ruge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Ruge"
    title: "Billy Ruge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AC"
    title: "بيلى روج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AC"
    title: "بلی روج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%B1%D9%88%DA%98"
    title: "بیلی روژ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Ruge"
    title: "Billy Ruge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4913266"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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