# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johnny-richards
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:53:47.066Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johnny-richards"
name: "Johnny Richards"
slug: "johnny-richards"
description: "Johnny Richards was an American jazz arranger and composer scoring numerous sound tracks for television and film. He was a pivotal composer/arranger for cutting edge, adventurous performances and recording sessions by Stan Kenton's big band in the 1950s and early 1960s; such as Cuban Fire!, Kenton's West Side Story and Adventures in Time."
tagline: "American jazz arranger and composer (1911–1968)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ralph_Burns%2C_Edwin_A._Finckel%2C_George_Handy%2C_Neal_Hefti%2C_Johnny_Richards%2C_and_Eddie_Sauter%2C_Museum_of_Modern_Art%2C_New_York%2C_N.Y.%2C_ca._Mar._1947_(Gottlieb_856).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: "1911-11-02"
deathDate: "1968-10-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.95
  momentum:             0.6354515050167224
  historical:           8.544781333333333
  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/nm0724168/"
    handle:    "nm0724168"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "جوني ريتشاردز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جونى ريتشاردز"
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    title: "جونی ریچاردز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Richards"
    title: "Johnny Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Richards"
    title: "Johnny Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Richards"
    title: "Johnny Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Richards"
    title: "Johnny Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Richards"
    title: "Johnny Richards"
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  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c764a50b-8475-46fa-abb2-dd2d6810c214"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump