# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/blanche-yurka
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:20:52.952Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/blanche-yurka"
name: "Blanche Yurka"
slug: "blanche-yurka"
description: "Blanche Yurka was an American stage and film actress and director. She was an opera singer with minor roles at the Metropolitan Opera and later became a stage actress, making her Broadway debut in 1906 and established herself as a character actor of the classical stage, also appearing in several films of the 1930s and 1940s."
tagline: "American actress and director (1887–1974)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/YURKA%2C_BLANCH_LCCN2016858196.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1887-06-18"
deathDate: "1974-06-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.5
  momentum:             6.976744186046511
  historical:           12.30612266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0951063/"
    handle:    "nm0951063"
sources:
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    title: "بلانچ یورکا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Yurka"
    title: "Blanche Yurka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B4_%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A7"
    title: "بلانتش يوركا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B4_%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%A9%D8%A7"
    title: "بلانش یورکا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Yurka"
    title: "Blanche Yurka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Yurka"
    title: "Blanche Yurka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Yurka"
    title: "Blanche Yurka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B4_%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%A9%D8%A7"
    title: "بلانش یورکا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Yurka"
    title: "Blanche Yurka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Yurka"
    title: "Blanche Yurka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Yurka"
    title: "Blanche Yurka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Yurka"
    title: "Blanche Yurka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Yurka"
    title: "Blanche Yurka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AE%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0%2C_%D0%91%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%88"
    title: "Юрка, Бланш"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q449704"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/89928"
    title: "Blanche Yurka"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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