# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-r-cumpson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:02:28.911Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-r-cumpson"
name: "John R. Cumpson"
slug: "john-r-cumpson"
description: "John R. Cumpson was an American stage and film actor. In 1895 he performed on Broadway as Tam Duncan Faa in Sidney R. Ellis's Bonnie Scotland. He returned to Broadway in Up York State in 1901. With regard to his screen career, Cumpson appeared in at least 124 films between 1905 and 1912. A 1910 newspaper item described him as \"the famous Swedish dialect comedian.\""
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_actor_John_R._Cumpson%2C_1911.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: "1867"
deathDate: "1913-03-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.99
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.937257333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0173994/"
    handle:    "nm0173994"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A2%D8%B1_%DA%A9%D9%85%D9%BE%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "جان آر کمپسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A2%D8%B1._%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85%D9%BE%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جون آر. كومپسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Cumpson"
    title: "John R. Cumpson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Cumpson"
    title: "John R. Cumpson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Cumpson"
    title: "John R. Cumpson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Cumpson"
    title: "John R. Cumpson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3182329"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1285059"
    title: "John R. Cumpson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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