# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lee-falk
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:06:22.589Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lee-falk"
name: "Lee Falk"
slug: "lee-falk"
description: "Lee Falk, born Leon Harrison Gross, was an American writer, playwright, theater director, and producer, best known as the creator of the comic strips Mandrake the Magician and The Phantom. At the height of their popularity, these strips attracted over 100 million readers every day. Falk also wrote short stories, and he contributed to a series of paperback novels about The Phantom."
tagline: "American comics writer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/14/Leefalkpic.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1911-04-28"
deathDate: "1999-03-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.78
  momentum:             3.961352657004831
  historical:           17.64223333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0266166/"
    handle:    "nm0266166"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lee Falk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lee Falk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lee Falk"
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    title: "Lee Falk"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ലീ ഫോക്ക്"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lee Falk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ли Фальк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لی فاک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump