# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/les-crane
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:42:40.802Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/les-crane"
name: "Les Crane"
slug: "les-crane"
description: "Les Crane was an American radio announcer, television host, and actor. A pioneer in interactive broadcasting, he is also known for his 1971 spoken-word recording of the poem Desiderata; he won a \"Best Spoken Word\" Grammy for it the following year. Crane was the first network television personality to compete head-on with host Johnny Carson after Carson became a fixture of late-night television."
tagline: "Radio announcer and television talk show host (1933-2008)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Les_Crane_1964.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: "1933-12-03"
deathDate: "2008-07-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.09
  momentum:             1.982690794649882
  historical:           7.672010666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0186386/"
    handle:    "nm0186386"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/550499"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%87_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ليه كرين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%87_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ليه كرين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8E%D8%B3_%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "لێس کرین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Crane"
    title: "Les Crane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Crane"
    title: "Les Crane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Crane"
    title: "Les Crane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c2251cf1-993b-4993-8d30-5dd883ee8fdd"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1750692"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1221382"
    title: "Les Crane"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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