# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/helen-burgess
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:16:37.582Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/helen-burgess"
name: "Helen Burgess"
slug: "helen-burgess"
description: "Helen Margarite Burgess was an American film and stage actress. Discovered by Cecil B. DeMille, she began her acting career in 1936 at age nineteen, playing Louisa Cody in DeMille's Western biopic The Plainsman. She would appear in four films as a contract player for Paramount Pictures before dying at age twenty from pneumonia."
tagline: "Actor (1916-1937)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Helen_Burgess_Paramount_headshot.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1916-04-26"
deathDate: "1937-04-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.541901333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0121300/"
    handle:    "nm0121300"
sources:
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    title: "ہیلن برجیس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Burgess"
    title: "Helen Burgess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%BA%D8%B3_(%D9%85%D9%85%D8%AB%D9%84%D8%A9)"
    title: "هيلين بورغس (ممثلة)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%B3"
    title: "هيلين بورجس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Burgess"
    title: "Helen Burgess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Burgess"
    title: "Helen Burgess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Burgess"
    title: "Helen Burgess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Burgess"
    title: "Helen Burgess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%97%AC%EB%A0%8C_%EB%B2%84%EA%B2%8C%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "헬렌 버게스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28777196"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/143398"
    title: "Helen Burgess"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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