# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-ovey
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:19:29.348Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-ovey"
name: "George Ovey"
slug: "george-ovey"
description: "George Overton O’Dell, known as George Ovey professionally, was an American film actor and comedian. Ovey was born December 13, 1870, in Trenton, Missouri. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1915 and 1951, but he is best known as the character \"Merry Jerry\" in dozens of short films known as the \"Cub Comedies\" that were produced in the mid-1910s by Mutual Films and directed by Milton Fahrney. Ovey died September 23, 1951, in Hollywood, California."
tagline: "Actor (1870-1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_Ovey_about_1916.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1870-12-13"
deathDate: "1951-09-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.06929466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0653989/"
    handle:    "nm0653989"
sources:
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    title: "George Ovey"
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    title: "George Ovey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ovey"
    title: "George Ovey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ovey"
    title: "George Ovey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%88%DB%8C"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ovey"
    title: "George Ovey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "George Ovey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ovey"
    title: "George Ovey"
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  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A1%B0%EC%A7%80_%EC%98%A4%EB%B2%A0%EC%9D%B4"
    title: "조지 오베이"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1171424"
    title: "George Ovey"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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