# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hideyo-amamoto
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:07:33.716Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hideyo-amamoto"
name: "Hideyo Amamoto"
slug: "hideyo-amamoto"
description: "Hideyo Amamoto  was a Japanese actor. He is best known for portraying Dr. Shinigami in the original Kamen Rider series as well as many other characters in tokusatsu films such as the Godzilla series. Amamoto also used the pseudonym of Eisei Amamoto for most of his career, Eisei being a misreading of the kanji in his real name, Hideyo. He died on March 23, 2003, of complications from pneumonia at 77."
tagline: "Japanese actor (1926–2003)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hideyo_Amamoto_1954_Scan10006_160913.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1926-01-02"
deathDate: "2003-03-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.02
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.838536
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0023862/"
    handle:    "nm0023862"
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideyo_Amamoto"
    title: "Hideyo Amamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "هيديو اماموتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideyo_Amamoto"
    title: "Hideyo Amamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideyo_Amamoto"
    title: "Hideyo Amamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%DB%8C%D8%AF%D9%87%E2%80%8C%DB%8C%D9%88_%D8%A2%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "هیده‌یو آماموتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideyo_Amamoto"
    title: "Hideyo Amamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideyo_Amamoto"
    title: "Hideyo Amamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A9%E6%9C%AC%E8%8B%B1%E4%B8%96"
    title: "天本英世"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideyo_Amamoto"
    title: "Hideyo Amamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideyo_Amamoto"
    title: "Hideyo Amamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amamoto_Hideyo"
    title: "Amamoto Hideyo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q938317"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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