# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-estelle
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:52:34.340Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-estelle"
name: "Don Estelle"
slug: "don-estelle"
description: "Don Estelle was an English actor and singer, best known as Gunner \"Lofty\" Sugden in It Ain't Half Hot Mum. In 1975, he recorded \"Whispering Grass\" with co-star Windsor Davies, which spent three weeks at number one in the UK."
tagline: "British actor and singer (1933–2003)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/ytHMIDIjAuu8MijK0qodkEDsz78.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1933-05-22"
deathDate: "2003-08-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.71
  momentum:             8.470940959409594
  historical:           9.488324
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0261584/"
    handle:    "nm0261584"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1191708"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Estelle"
    title: "Don Estelle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Estelle"
    title: "Don Estelle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Estelle"
    title: "Don Estelle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A5%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "دون إستيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "دون استيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Estelle"
    title: "Don Estelle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Estelle"
    title: "Don Estelle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Estelle"
    title: "Don Estelle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/70eb4805-12a7-46d4-aae4-bb27306dc7f3"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q320272"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1191234"
    title: "Don Estelle"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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