# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jerry-lester
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:59:52.199Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jerry-lester"
name: "Jerry Lester"
slug: "jerry-lester"
description: "Jerry Lester was an American comedian, singer and performer on radio, television and the stage, known for playing the father of the main characters, Mike Firpo, in the comedy Odds and Evens and who hosted the first network late night television program as host of Broadway Open House on NBC, a vaudeville-esque combination of comedy and music, whose success demonstrated the potential for late-night television and led to the creation of the Tonight Show."
tagline: "American singer (1910-1995)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jerry_Lester_Broadway_Open_House.jpg?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: "1910-02-16"
deathDate: "1995-03-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.64
  momentum:             0.8117647058823529
  historical:           7.099750666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0504469/"
    handle:    "nm0504469"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/9dd0e95d-018a-49a6-bd2b-152b84369fe9"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lester"
    title: "Jerry Lester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "جيرى ليستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8E%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D9%84%DB%8E%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%95%D8%B1"
    title: "جێری لێستەر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lester"
    title: "Jerry Lester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lester"
    title: "Jerry Lester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lester"
    title: "Jerry Lester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%B9%D8%B1"
    title: "جیری لیسٹر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19319436"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1221949"
    title: "Jerry Lester"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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