# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mercedes-mccambridge
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:24:17.400Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mercedes-mccambridge"
name: "Mercedes McCambridge"
slug: "mercedes-mccambridge"
description: "Carlotta Mercedes Agnes McCambridge was an American actress of radio, stage, film, and television. Orson Welles called her \"the world's greatest living radio actress\". She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her screen debut in All the King's Men (1949) and was nominated in the same category for Giant (1956). She voiced the majority of dialogue for demon Pazuzu in The Exorcist (1973)."
tagline: "American actress (1916-2004)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mercedes_McCambridge_-_1950_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1916-03-16"
deathDate: "2004-03-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             19.52402316665307
  historical:           23.77431333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    title: "Mercedes McCambridge"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump