# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-carl-breil
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:31:55.203Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-carl-breil"
name: "Joseph Carl Breil"
slug: "joseph-carl-breil"
description: "Joseph Carl Breil was an American lyric tenor, stage director, composer and conductor. He was one of the earliest American composers to compose specific music for motion pictures. His first film was Les amours de la reine Élisabeth (1912) starring Sarah Bernhardt. He later composed and arranged scores for several other early motion pictures, including such epics as D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916), as well as scoring the preview version of The Phantom of the Opera (1925), a score that is now lost. His love theme for \"Birth of a Nation\", titled \"The Perfect Song\", was published by Chappell & Co. in an arrangement for voice and keyboard. It was later used as the theme for the radio show Amos 'n' Andy."
tagline: "American lyric tenor, stage director, composer and conductor (1870–1926)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Breil.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1870-06-29"
deathDate: "1926-01-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0106922/"
    handle:    "nm0106922"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump