# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chester-morris
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:50:32.444Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chester-morris"
name: "Chester Morris"
slug: "chester-morris"
description: "John Chester Brooks Morris was an American stage, film, television, and radio actor. He had some prestigious film roles early in his career, and received an Academy Award nomination for Alibi (1929). Morris is remembered for portraying Boston Blackie, a criminal-turned-detective, in the eponymous film series of the 1940s."
tagline: "American actor (1901–1970)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chester_Morris_in_Corsair.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: "1901-02-16"
deathDate: "1970-09-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           56.47
  momentum:             10
  historical:           21.91096266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0606431/"
    handle:    "nm0606431"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chester Morris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "چستر موریس"
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    title: "Chester Morris"
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    title: "Chester Morris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chester Morris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chester Morris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chester Morris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Моррис, Честер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Chester Morris"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump