# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenneth-lee-spencer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:16:36.330Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kenneth-lee-spencer"
name: "Kenneth Lee Spencer"
slug: "kenneth-lee-spencer"
description: "Kenneth Spencer, was an American operatic singer and actor. Spencer starred in a few Broadway musicals and musical films in the United States during the 1940s. Frustrated with the racial prejudice he experienced in the United States as a black man, Spencer moved to West Germany in 1950, where he had a successful singing career. He also appeared in a number of German films. His career was cut short when he died in the crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 304."
tagline: "American-German singer and actor (1913-1964)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Spencer%2C_Kenneth_(um_1960).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1913-04-25"
deathDate: "1964-02-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.4
  momentum:             13.19796954314721
  historical:           6.681828
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0818007/"
    handle:    "nm0818007"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/754929"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Lee_Spencer"
    title: "Kenneth Lee Spencer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AB_%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%B1"
    title: "كينيث لي سبنسر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AB_%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%B1"
    title: "كينيث لى سبنسر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8E%D8%AA_%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%B3%D9%BE%DB%8E%D9%86%D8%B3%DB%95%D8%B1"
    title: "کینێت لی سپێنسەر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Spencer"
    title: "Kenneth Spencer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Spencer_(singer)"
    title: "Kenneth Spencer (singer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/0481c1bf-7420-49de-a811-ef02556e64e9"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97291"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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