# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-formby
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:19:01.064Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-formby"
name: "George Formby"
slug: "george-formby"
description: "George Formby was an English actor, singer-songwriter and comedian who became known to a worldwide audience through his films of the 1930s and 1940s. On stage, screen and record he sang light, comic songs, usually accompanying himself on the ukulele or banjolele, and became the UK's highest-paid entertainer."
tagline: "English actor, singer-songwriter and comedian (1904–1961)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Entertaining_British_Troops_in_North_West_Europe%2C_1944_B7923.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1904-05-26"
deathDate: "1961-03-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.02
  momentum:             1.149217265405846
  historical:           17.77688933333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0286399/"
    handle:    "nm0286399"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.georgeformby.co.uk"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Formby"
    title: "George Formby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%89"
    title: "جورج فورمبى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6_%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B1%D0%B8"
    title: "Джордж Формби"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Formby"
    title: "George Formby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Formby"
    title: "George Formby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Formby_jr."
    title: "George Formby jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Formby"
    title: "George Formby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Formby%2C_Jr."
    title: "George Formby, Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A8%DB%8C"
    title: "جورج فورمبی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Formby"
    title: "George Formby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Formby"
    title: "George Formby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Formby"
    title: "George Formby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A1%B0%EC%A7%80_%ED%8F%BC%EB%B9%84"
    title: "조지 폼비"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Formby"
    title: "George Formby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Formby"
    title: "George Formby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Formby"
    title: "George Formby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Formby"
    title: "George Formby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Formby"
    title: "George Formby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Formby"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f5d51e0f-323e-46de-96ce-d427fd4b124c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q181816"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/550511"
    title: "George Formby"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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