# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jack-cole-q1677001
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:58:28.096Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jack-cole-q1677001"
name: "Jack Cole"
slug: "jack-cole-q1677001"
description: "Jack Cole was an American dancer, choreographer, and theatre director known as \"the Father of Theatrical Jazz Dance\" for his role in codifying African-American jazz dance styles, as influenced by the dance traditions of other cultures, for Broadway and Hollywood. Asked to describe his style he described it as \"urban folk dance\"."
tagline: "Choreographer (1911-1974)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Jack_Cole_LCCN2004662721.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1911-04-27"
deathDate: "1974-02-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.606953333333333
  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/nm0170574/"
    handle:    "nm0170574"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%DA%A9_%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%84_(%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%88%DA%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B1)"
    title: "جیک کول (کوریوگرافر)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84_(%D9%85%D9%85%D8%AB%D9%84)"
    title: "جاك كول (ممثل)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "جايك كول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%DA%A9_%DA%A9%DB%86%D9%84"
    title: "جاک کۆل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Cole_(Choreograf)"
    title: "Jack Cole (Choreograf)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Cole_(choreographer)"
    title: "Jack Cole (choreographer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Cole_(chor%C3%A9graphe)"
    title: "Jack Cole (chorégraphe)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Cole"
    title: "Jack Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BA_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%83%D0%BB_(%D1%85%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84)"
    title: "Джек Коул (хореограф)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1677001"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4103275"
    title: "Jack Cole"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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