# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lester-wilson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:08:11.986Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lester-wilson"
name: "Lester Wilson"
slug: "lester-wilson"
description: "Lester Wilson was an African-American dancer, choreographer, and actor. Wilson attended the Juilliard School. Bob Fosse cast him in a 1963 revival of Pal Joey at the New York City Center. Wilson toured London with Sammy Davis Jr. in Golden Boy. In 1969, he was responsible with 24 of his dancers for the choreography of Johnny Hallyday's show at the Palais des Sports in Paris."
tagline: "American dancer and choreographer; recording artist (1942-1993)"
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: "1942-04-13"
deathDate: "1993-02-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.953277333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0933752/"
    handle:    "nm0933752"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Wilson"
    title: "Lester Wilson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ليستير ويلسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8E%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%95%D8%B1_%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%B5%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "لێستەر ویڵسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Wilson"
    title: "Lester Wilson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Wilson"
    title: "Lester Wilson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A0%88%EC%8A%A4%ED%84%B0_%EC%9C%8C%EC%8A%A8"
    title: "레스터 윌슨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Wilson"
    title: "Lester Wilson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%B9%D8%B1_%D9%88%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "لیسٹر ولسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6531981"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1213894"
    title: "Lester Wilson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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