# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/georgia-backus
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:42:07.838Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/georgia-backus"
name: "Georgia Backus"
slug: "georgia-backus"
description: "Georgia Belden Backus was an American character actress on stage, radio and screen. She was also a writer, director and producer of radio dramas. In 1930 she was named dramatic director of the Columbia Broadcasting System, to guide the development of the new art of the radio play. A member of the repertory company presenting Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre radio programs, she played supporting roles in some 30 films during the 1940s and 1950s. Her first screen credit was Citizen Kane (1941), in which she played the severe assistant in the Thatcher library. Her career was ended by the Hollywood blacklist."
tagline: "American actress (1900-1983)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Georgia-Backus.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
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: "1900-10-13"
deathDate: "1983-09-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.93
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.346509333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0045735/"
    handle:    "nm0045735"
sources:
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    title: "جيورجيا باكوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "조지아 배커스"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump