# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-fay
# Generated: 2026-09-01T06:42:01.776Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-fay"
name: "Frank Fay"
slug: "frank-fay"
description: "Frank Fay was an American vaudeville comedian, film actor, and stage actor. Considered an important pioneer in comedy, he has been referred to as \"the first stand-up\". For a time he was a well known and influential star, vaudeville's highest-paid headliner, earning $17,500 a week in the 1920s, but he later fell into obscurity, in part because of his abrasive personality and rightwing political views. He played the role of Elwood P. Dowd in the 1944 Broadway play Harvey by the American playwright Mary Coyle Chase. He is best known as the first husband of actress Barbara Stanwyck."
tagline: "American actor and comedian (1891-1961)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frank_Fay_1936.jpg?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: "1891-11-17"
deathDate: "1961-09-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.34
  momentum:             15
  historical:           15.21372666666667
  currentAttention:     98.4466834592779
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0269567/"
    handle:    "nm0269567"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "فرانک فی (اویونچو آمریکایی)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Fay_(comedian)"
    title: "Frank Fay (comedian)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Frank Fay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Frank Fay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Frank Fay (pemeran Amerika Serikat)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Fay"
    title: "Frank Fay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%94%84%EB%9E%AD%ED%81%AC_%ED%8E%98%EC%9D%B4"
    title: "프랭크 페이"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Fay"
    title: "Frank Fay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Fay"
    title: "Frank Fay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Fay"
    title: "Frank Fay"
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    title: "فرینک فے (مزاحیہ اداکار)"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/118203"
    title: "Frank Fay"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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