# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/howard-keel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:17:05.982Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/howard-keel"
name: "Howard Keel"
slug: "howard-keel"
description: "Harold Clifford Keel, professionally Howard Keel, was an American actor and singer known for his rich bass-baritone singing voice. He starred in a number of MGM musicals in the 1950s, including Show Boat (1951). He played the role of oil baron Clayton Farlow in the television series Dallas from 1981 to 1991."
tagline: "American actor and singer (1919–2004)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Howard_Keel_(1919-2004)_portrait.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1919-04-13"
deathDate: "2004-11-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.61150133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0444476/"
    handle:    "nm0444476"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump