# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/julius-tannen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:20:52.409Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/julius-tannen"
name: "Julius Tannen"
slug: "julius-tannen"
description: "Julius Tannen was an American monologist in vaudeville. He was known to stage audiences for his witty improvisations and creative word games. He had a successful career as a character actor in films, appearing in over 50 films in his 25-year film career. He is probably best known to film audiences from the musical Singin' in the Rain, in which he appears as the man demonstrating a talking picture early in the film."
tagline: "American comedian (1880–1965)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Julius_Tannen_in_1919.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: "1880-05-16"
deathDate: "1965-01-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.25
  momentum:             4.342507645259939
  historical:           8.346293333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0849582/"
    handle:    "nm0849582"
sources:
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    title: "Julius Tannen"
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    title: "يوليوس تانين"
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    title: "Julius Tannen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%86"
    title: "جولیوس تانن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Tannen"
    title: "Julius Tannen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Tannen"
    title: "Julius Tannen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Tannen"
    title: "Julius Tannen"
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  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D9%B9%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%86"
    title: "جولیس ٹینن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Julius Tannen"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump