# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johnston-forbes-robertson
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:23:23.329Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johnston-forbes-robertson"
name: "Johnston Forbes-Robertson"
slug: "johnston-forbes-robertson"
description: "Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson was an English actor and theatre manager and husband of the actress Gertrude Elliott. Considered by some the finest Hamlet of the Victorian era and one of the finest actors of his time, he disliked acting and believed throughout his career that he was temperamentally unsuited to it."
tagline: "British actor (1853-1937)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Johnston_Forbes-Robertson_cph.3b31602.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1853-01-16"
deathDate: "1937-11-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.93
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.487834666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0285425/"
    handle:    "nm0285425"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnston_Forbes-Robertson"
    title: "Johnston Forbes-Robertson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B3_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جونستين فوربس روبرتسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnston_Forbes-Robertson"
    title: "Johnston Forbes-Robertson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnston_Forbes-Robertson"
    title: "Johnston Forbes-Robertson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnston_Forbes-Robertson"
    title: "Johnston Forbes-Robertson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q364556"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1549492"
    title: "Johnston Forbes-Robertson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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