# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dwight-frye
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:22:36.059Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dwight-frye"
name: "Dwight Frye"
slug: "dwight-frye"
description: "Dwight Iliff Frye was an American character actor of stage and screen. He is best known for his portrayals of neurotic, murderous villains in several classic Universal horror films, such as Renfield in Dracula (1931) and Fritz in Frankenstein (1931)."
tagline: "Actor (1899-1943)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dwight_Frye.png?width=1200"
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: "1899-02-22"
deathDate: "1943-11-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.86
  momentum:             0.7564211120519334
  historical:           18.337196
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0296859"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump