# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/irving-klaw
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:58:48.927Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/irving-klaw"
name: "Irving Klaw"
slug: "irving-klaw"
description: "Irving Klaw, self-named the \"Pin-up King\", was an influential American merchant of sexploitation, fetish, and Hollywood glamour pin-up photographs and films. Like his predecessor, Charles Guyette, who was also a merchant of fetish-themed photographs, Klaw was not a photographer, but a merchandiser of fetish art imagery and films. He would commission fetish art and sponsor illustrative artists, and indirectly promote the legacy of Charles Guyette and John Willie. Irving Klaw is a central figure in what fetish art historian Richard Pérez Seves has designated as the \"Bizarre Underground,\" the pre-1970 fetish art years."
tagline: "Influential American merchant of sexploitation, fetish, and Hollywood glamour pin-up photographs and films"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Teaserama_poster_01.jpg/330px-Teaserama_poster_01.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1910-11-09"
deathDate: "1966-09-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.32
  momentum:             2.584568151742391
  historical:           9.09252
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0458480/"
    handle:    "nm0458480"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ايرڤينج كلاو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Klaw"
    title: "Irving Klaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Klaw"
    title: "Irving Klaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Klaw"
    title: "Irving Klaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Klaw"
    title: "Irving Klaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Klaw"
    title: "Irving Klaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Klaw"
    title: "Irving Klaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%DA%AF_%DA%A9%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "ارونگ کلا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/605f09ea-e921-4c63-b02e-974551e6895a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q711617"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/114650"
    title: "Irving Klaw"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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