# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-cryer
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:58:15.913Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-cryer"
name: "David Cryer"
slug: "david-cryer"
description: "Donald David Cryer Jr. is an American stage, television and film actor and one of the founders of San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater which began in Pittsburgh and New York's Mirror Repertory Theatre. He may be best known for the role of Firmin in The Phantom of the Opera, which he has played for nearly 19 years on the road and on Broadway. He has also played more performances of the Bernstein Mass, as The Celebrant and more performances as Juan Peron in Evita than any other actor. He is the father of actor Jon Cryer."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Cryer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1936-03-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.550912
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0190541/"
    handle:    "nm0190541"
sources:
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    title: "ديفيد كراير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دەیڤد کرایەر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Cryer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دیوید کرایر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cryer"
    title: "David Cryer"
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    title: "데이비드 크라이어"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cryer"
    title: "David Cryer"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cryer"
    title: "David Cryer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60636"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/66296"
    title: "David Cryer"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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