# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lawrence-tierney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:31:29.329Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lawrence-tierney"
name: "Lawrence Tierney"
slug: "lawrence-tierney"
description: "Lawrence James Tierney was an American film and television actor who is best known for his many screen portrayals of mobsters and \"tough guys\" in a career that spanned over fifty years. His roles mirrored his own frequent brushes with the law. In 2005, film critic David Kehr of The New York Times described \"the hulking Tierney\" as \"not so much an actor as a frightening force of nature\"."
tagline: "American actor (1919–2002)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lawrence_Tierney_in_Dillinger_trailer_(1945)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1919-03-15"
deathDate: "2002-02-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.11409066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0862937/"
    handle:    "nm0862937"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.lawrencetierney.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump