# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/howie-nicol
# Generated: 2026-08-20T19:47:35.044Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/howie-nicol"
name: "Howie Nicol"
slug: "howie-nicol"
description: "James George Nicol is an English drummer and business entrepreneur. He is best known for sitting in for Ringo Starr in the Beatles for eight concerts of the Beatles' 1964 world tour during the height of Beatlemania."
tagline: "British sound engineer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Televisie-optreden_van_The_Beatles_in_Treslong_te_Hillegom_vlnr_George_Harriso%2C_Bestanddeelnr_916-5098_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Televisie-optreden_van_The_Beatles_in_Treslong_te_Hillegom_vlnr_George_Harriso%2C_Bestanddeelnr_916-5098_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail"
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"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           16.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           2.200144
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  71
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0630145/"
    handle:    "nm0630145"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howie_Nicol"
    title: "Howie Nicol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136510727"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2661029"
    title: "Howie Nicol"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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