# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marlin-perkins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:20:04.701Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marlin-perkins"
name: "Marlin Perkins"
slug: "marlin-perkins"
description: "Richard Marlin Perkins was an American zoologist. He is best known as the host of the television program Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom from 1963 to 1985."
tagline: "American zoologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marlin_Perkins_Wild_Kingdom.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: "1905-03-28"
deathDate: "1986-06-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.18
  momentum:             0.1905863800089332
  historical:           5.941326666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0674002/"
    handle:    "nm0674002"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlin_Perkins"
    title: "Marlin Perkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "مارلين پيركينس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlin_Perkins"
    title: "Marlin Perkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%BE%D8%B1%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "مارلین پرکینز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlin_Perkins"
    title: "Marlin Perkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q185873"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1242136"
    title: "Marlin Perkins"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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