# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerald-ames
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:52:13.478Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerald-ames"
name: "Gerald Ames"
slug: "gerald-ames"
description: "Gerald Ames was a British actor, film director and Olympic fencer. Ames was born in Blackheath, London in 1880 and first took up acting in 1905. He was a popular leading man in the post-First World War cinema, appearing in more than sixty films between his debut in 1914 and his retirement from the screen in 1928 in a career entirely encompassing the silent era. He was also a regular stage actor who took on many leading roles in the theatre."
tagline: "Actor, director, olympic fencer (1880–1933)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gerald_Ames_1919_magazine_head_and_shoulders.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: "1880-09-12"
deathDate: "1933-07-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.88
  momentum:             8.750000000000002
  historical:           7.671202666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0024706/"
    handle:    "nm0024706"
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ames"
    title: "Gerald Ames"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ames"
    title: "Gerald Ames"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "جيرالد اميس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2"
    title: "جرالد ایمز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ames"
    title: "Gerald Ames"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2"
    title: "جرالد ایمز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ames"
    title: "Gerald Ames"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ames"
    title: "Gerald Ames"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5548878"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1393643"
    title: "Gerald Ames"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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