# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cyril-ritchard
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:59:32.481Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cyril-ritchard"
name: "Cyril Ritchard"
slug: "cyril-ritchard"
description: "Cyril Joseph Trimnell-Ritchard, known professionally as Cyril Ritchard, was an Australian stage, screen and television actor, and director. He is best remembered today for his performance as Captain Hook in the Mary Martin musical production of Peter Pan. In 1945, he played Gabriel Eisenstein in Gay Rosalinda at the Palace theatre in London, a version of Strauss's Die Fledermaus by Erich Wolfgang Korngold in which he appeared with Peter Graves, 8th Baron Graves. The show was conducted by Richard Tauber and ran for almost a year."
tagline: "Australian actor (1897–1977)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Madge_Elliott_and_Cyril_Ritchard's_wedding.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1897-12-01"
deathDate: "1977-12-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.21
  momentum:             8.751996463407675
  historical:           7.730746666666666
  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/nm0728509/"
    handle:    "nm0728509"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "سيريل ريتشارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Ritchard"
    title: "Cyril Ritchard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Ritchard"
    title: "Cyril Ritchard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%84_%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "سیریل ریچارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Ritchard"
    title: "Cyril Ritchard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Ritchard"
    title: "Cyril Ritchard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%B1%DA%86%D8%B1%DA%88"
    title: "سیرل رچرڈ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8f987fd7-2894-4199-a28c-fb221ef4d918"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3699925"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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