# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-beck-q3267201
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:31:12.056Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-beck-q3267201"
name: "James Beck"
slug: "james-beck-q3267201"
description: "Stanley James Carroll Beck was an English television actor. He appeared in a number of programmes, but is best known for the role of Private Walker, a cockney spiv, in the BBC sitcom Dad's Army from the show's beginning in 1968 until his sudden death in 1973."
tagline: "British actor (1929–1973)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e2/James_Beck-1973.png?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
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"
birthDate: "1929-02-21"
deathDate: "1973-08-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             12.58568731363277
  historical:           11.523136
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0065161/"
    handle:    "nm0065161"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Beck"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D8%A8%DA%A9"
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  - url: "https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Beck"
    title: "James Beck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Beck"
    title: "James Beck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Beck"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Beck"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Beck"
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  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/9217abe6-0829-45ef-b0c9-891780a64d48"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump