# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/forrest-compton
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:01:00.326Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/forrest-compton"
name: "Forrest Compton"
slug: "forrest-compton"
description: "Forrest Compton was an American actor, primarily known for playing Mike Karr on the daytime soap opera The Edge of Night, as well as Colonel Gray on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C."
tagline: "American actor (1925-2020)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Forrest_Compton_%22The_Edge_of_Night%22_%281977_ABC_press_photo%29.JPG/330px-Forrest_Compton_%22The_Edge_of_Night%22_%281977_ABC_press_photo%29.JPG"
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: "1925-09-15"
deathDate: "2020-04-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.68
  momentum:             8.922594142259415
  historical:           9.065124
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0174030/"
    handle:    "nm0174030"
sources:
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    title: "فورسٹ کومپٹن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Forrest Compton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Compton"
    title: "Forrest Compton"
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    title: "فوريست كومپتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فۆڕێست کۆمپتۆن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Forrest Compton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Compton"
    title: "Forrest Compton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Compton"
    title: "Forrest Compton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "포리스트 콤프턴"
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  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Compton"
    title: "Forrest Compton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5470446"
    title: "Wikidata"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1221285"
    title: "Forrest Compton"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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