# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenneth-tobey
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:58:50.807Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kenneth-tobey"
name: "Kenneth Tobey"
slug: "kenneth-tobey"
description: "Jesse Kenneth Tobey was an American actor active from the early 1940s into the 1990s, with over 200 credits in film, theatre, and television. He is best known for his role as a captain who takes charge of an Arctic military base when it is attacked by a plant-based alien in The Thing from Another World (1951), and a starring role in the 1957-1960 Desilu Productions TV series Whirlybirds."
tagline: "American actor (1917–2002)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/It_Came_from_Beneath_the_Sea_(1955)_trailer_1.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: "1917-03-23"
deathDate: "2002-12-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.83
  momentum:             0.2908752822419976
  historical:           14.74559466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0864851/"
    handle:    "nm0864851"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kenneth Tobey"
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    title: "Kenneth Tobey"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Тоби, Кеннет"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump