# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-forest
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:43:20.445Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-forest"
name: "Mark Forest"
slug: "mark-forest"
description: "Lou Degni, known professionally as Mark Forest, was an American actor and bodybuilder – widely known as the protagonist in a series of 1960s sword and sandal or peplum movies — including his recurring role as Maciste."
tagline: "American actor, bodybuilder and opera singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lou_Degni_1955.png?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: "1933-01-06"
deathDate: "2022-01-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50
  momentum:             3.804780876494025
  historical:           13.649896
  currentAttention:     10.4
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0286127/"
    handle:    "nm0286127"
sources:
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    title: "مارک فاریسٹ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Forest"
    title: "Mark Forest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مارك فورست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mark Forest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Forest"
    title: "Mark Forest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "مارک فورست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Forest"
    title: "Mark Forest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Forest"
    title: "Mark Forest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Forest"
    title: "Mark Forest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Forest"
    title: "Mark Forest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Forest"
    title: "Mark Forest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Forest"
    title: "Mark Forest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Forest"
    title: "Mark Forest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Forest"
    title: "Mark Forest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Forest"
    title: "Mark Forest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Forest"
    title: "Mark Forest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q275389"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/980234"
    title: "Mark Forest"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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