# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-turkel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:54:33.456Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-turkel"
name: "Joe Turkel"
slug: "joe-turkel"
description: "Joseph Turkel was an American character actor who starred in film and television during the Golden Age of Hollywood in the 1950s and 1960s. He is best known for his roles in Stanley Kubrick's films The Killing (1956), Paths of Glory (1957), and The Shining (1980), and as Dr. Eldon Tyrell in Blade Runner (1982). He also had roles in three of Bert I. Gordon's films."
tagline: "American actor (1927–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joe_Turkel_in_Tormented_(1960).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1927-07-15"
deathDate: "2022-06-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.84
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.76982266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0877185/"
    handle:    "nm0877185"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump