# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-j-kay
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:01:00.395Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-j-kay"
name: "Edward J. Kay"
slug: "edward-j-kay"
description: "Edward J. Kay was an American film composer and musical director, who worked on over 340 films from the 1930s into the 1960s, and was nominated on multiple occasions for an Academy Award for Best Original Score, although he never won. On his last film, 1962's The Creation of the Humanoids, he was also a producer."
tagline: "American composer (1898-1973)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1898-11-27"
deathDate: "1973-12-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.72
  momentum:             6.067415730337079
  historical:           7.005148
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0443033/"
    handle:    "nm0443033"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%88%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%88_%D8%AC%DB%92_%DA%A9%DB%8C"
    title: "ایڈورڈ جے کی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%8A_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%8A"
    title: "إدوارد جاي كاي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%89_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "ادوارد جاى كاى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_J._Kay"
    title: "Edward J. Kay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_J._Kay"
    title: "Edward J. Kay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%AC%DB%8C._%DA%A9%DB%8C"
    title: "ادوارد جی. کی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_J._Kay"
    title: "Edward J. Kay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1292620"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/118217"
    title: "Edward J. Kay"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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