# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maurice-walsh
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:20:53.299Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maurice-walsh"
name: "Maurice Walsh"
slug: "maurice-walsh"
description: "Maurice Walsh was an Irish novelist, now best known for his short story \"The Quiet Man\", later made into the Oscar-winning film The Quiet Man, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. He was one of Ireland's best-selling authors in the 1930s."
tagline: "Irish writer (1879–1964)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1879-04-21"
deathDate: "1964-02-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.57
  momentum:             9.705882352941176
  historical:           5.499570666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0909775/"
    handle:    "nm0909775"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Walsh"
    title: "Maurice Walsh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4"
    title: "موريس والش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Walsh"
    title: "Maurice Walsh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Walsh"
    title: "Maurice Walsh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Walsh"
    title: "Maurice Walsh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3301525"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1010738"
    title: "Maurice Walsh"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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