# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leroy-shield
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:33:00.672Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leroy-shield"
name: "Leroy Shield"
slug: "leroy-shield"
description: "Leroy Bernard Shield was an American film score and radio composer. He is best known for the themes and incidental music he wrote for the classic Hal Roach comedy short films of the 1930s, including the Our Gang and Laurel and Hardy series."
tagline: "American film score and radio composer, pianist, session musician (1893-1962)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1893-10-02"
deathDate: "1962-01-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Leroy Shield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Leroy Shield"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump