# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lionel-pape
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:04:47.015Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lionel-pape"
name: "Lionel Pape"
slug: "lionel-pape"
description: "Edward Lionel Pape was an English-born stage and screen actor. His acting career begun in his native UK with eventual migration to the US. He appeared on the Broadway stage in over 20 productions between 1912 and 1935. The beginning of his screen career goes back to the silent film era. Between the 1930s and early 1940s, he played supporting roles and bit parts in over 50 Hollywood movies. He played in numerous films of directors like John Ford, Ernst Lubitsch and George Cukor. Pape portrayed Katharine Hepburn's butler in The Philadelphia Story (1940) and appeared as the oppressive coal mine owner in How Green Was My Valley (1941)."
tagline: "English actor (1877-1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lionel_Pape_in_Eternally_Yours.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1877-04-17"
deathDate: "1944-10-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.19
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.209036
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0660402/"
    handle:    "nm0660402"
sources:
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Pape"
    title: "Lionel Pape"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Pape"
    title: "Lionel Pape"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Pape"
    title: "Lionel Pape"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Pape"
    title: "Lionel Pape"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Pape"
    title: "Lionel Pape"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86%D9%84_%D9%BE%DB%8C%D9%BE"
    title: "لایونل پیپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Pape"
    title: "Lionel Pape"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3241920"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14691"
    title: "Lionel Pape"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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