# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/colin-tapley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:18:26.825Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/colin-tapley"
name: "Colin Tapley"
slug: "colin-tapley"
description: "Colin Edward Livingstone Tapley was a New Zealand actor in both American and British films. Born in New Zealand, he served in the Royal Air Force and an expedition to Antarctica before winning a Paramount Pictures talent contest and moving to Hollywood. He acted in a number of films before moving to Britain during the Second World War as a flight controller with the Royal Canadian Air Force."
tagline: "New Zealand actor (1907-1995)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Colin_Tapley_headshot_1933.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1907-05-07"
deathDate: "1995-12-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.73
  momentum:             14.88948589571376
  historical:           5.286502666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0850029/"
    handle:    "nm0850029"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Tapley"
    title: "Colin Tapley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Tapley"
    title: "Colin Tapley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%BE%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "كولين تاپلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Tapley"
    title: "Colin Tapley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%BD%9C%EB%A6%B0_%ED%85%8C%EC%9D%B4%ED%94%8C%EB%A6%AC"
    title: "콜린 테이플리"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q892692"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/96743"
    title: "Colin Tapley"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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