# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leigh-whipper
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:19:00.187Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leigh-whipper"
name: "Leigh Whipper"
slug: "leigh-whipper"
description: "Leigh Rollin Whipper was an American actor on the stage and in motion pictures. He was the first African American to join the Actors' Equity Association, and one of the founders of the Negro Actors Guild of America. He created the role of Crooks in the original Broadway production of Of Mice and Men, which he reprised in the 1939 film version."
tagline: "American actor (1876–1975)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Porgy-Leigh-Whipper.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: "1876-10-29"
deathDate: "1975-07-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.55
  momentum:             5.413533834586464
  historical:           5.288194666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0924181/"
    handle:    "nm0924181"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Whipper"
    title: "Leigh Whipper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Whipper"
    title: "Leigh Whipper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Whipper"
    title: "Leigh Whipper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Whipper"
    title: "Leigh Whipper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C_%D9%88%DB%81%D9%BE%D8%B1"
    title: "لی وہپر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1815058"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/130217"
    title: "Leigh Whipper"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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