# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/f-x-toole
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:36:24.158Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/f-x-toole"
name: "F.X. Toole"
slug: "f-x-toole"
description: "F.X. Toole is the pen name of boxing trainer Jerry Boyd. Toole is most noted for writing the 2000 collection of short stories Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner, which were adapted into the Oscar-winning movie Million Dollar Baby in 2004. F.X. Toole's posthumous novel Pound for Pound was released in 2006 to rave reviews. Cutman, a one-hour dramatic series set in the world of boxing, drawn from short stories by F.X. Toole, is in development by AMC Television."
tagline: "Boxing trainer, author (1930-2002)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/vhtkgF1uWwIP1c2HJ7panQXgpfU.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1930-07-30"
deathDate: "2002-09-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.23
  momentum:             0.2341137123745819
  historical:           7.033048
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0101801/"
    handle:    "nm0101801"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.fxtoole.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/F.X._Toole"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._X._Toole"
    title: "F. X. Toole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._X._Toole"
    title: "F. X. Toole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.X._Toole"
    title: "F.X. Toole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._X._Toole"
    title: "F. X. Toole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.X._Toole"
    title: "F.X. Toole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.X._Toole"
    title: "F.X. Toole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q321713"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1086878"
    title: "F.X. Toole"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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