# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenneth-cook
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:25:54.285Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kenneth-cook"
name: "Kenneth Cook"
slug: "kenneth-cook"
description: "Kenneth Bernard Cook was an Australian journalist, television documentary maker, and novelist best known for his work Wake in Fright, which is still in print five decades after its first publication, and the humorous Killer Koala trilogy."
tagline: "Australian film director (1929–1987)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1929-05-05"
deathDate: "1987-04-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.75
  momentum:             8.321167883211679
  historical:           11.69327066666667
  currentAttention:     34.968456725756
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0177146/"
    handle:    "nm0177146"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AB_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%83"
    title: "كينيث كوك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AB_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%83"
    title: "كينيث كوك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Cook"
    title: "Kenneth Cook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Cook"
    title: "Kenneth Cook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Cook"
    title: "Kenneth Cook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Cook"
    title: "Kenneth Cook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Cook"
    title: "Kenneth Cook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Cook"
    title: "Kenneth Cook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Cook"
    title: "Kenneth Cook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Cook"
    title: "Kenneth Cook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AA%DA%BE_%DA%A9%DA%A9"
    title: "کینتھ کک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kenneth_Cook"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kenneth_Cook"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q339196"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1479441"
    title: "Kenneth Cook"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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