# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dick-calkins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:37:51.802Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dick-calkins"
name: "Dick Calkins"
slug: "dick-calkins"
description: "Richard William Calkins, who often signed his work Lt. Dick Calkins, was an American comic strip artist who is best known for being the first artist to draw the Buck Rogers comic strip. He also wrote for the Buck Rogers radio program."
tagline: "American comic strip artist who drew Buck Rogers"
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: "1894-08-12"
deathDate: "1962-05-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.005148
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0130071/"
    handle:    "nm0130071"
sources:
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Calkins"
    title: "Dick Calkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "ديك كالكينز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Calkins"
    title: "Dick Calkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Calkins"
    title: "Dick Calkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Calkins"
    title: "Dick Calkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Calkins"
    title: "Dick Calkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Calkins"
    title: "Dick Calkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1606864"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4039516"
    title: "Dick Calkins"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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