# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/morris
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:19:58.085Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/morris"
name: "Morris"
slug: "morris"
description: "Maurice De Bevere, better known as Morris, was a Belgian comics artist, illustrator, and the creator of Lucky Luke, a best-selling comic series about a gunslinger in the American Wild West. He was inspired by the adventures of the historic Dalton Gang and other outlaws. It was a best-selling series for more than 50 years, published internationally and translated into 23 languages. He collaborated for two decades with French writer René Goscinny on the series. Morris's pen name is an Anglicized version of Maurice."
tagline: "Belgian comics artist (1923-2001)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Morris_-_Maurice_De_Bevere.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1923-12-01"
deathDate: "2001-07-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.54
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.659884
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0606328/"
    handle:    "nm0606328"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Morris (historietista)"
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    title: "Morris (teknari)"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_(auteur)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Morris (fumettista)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_(Auteur)"
    title: "Morris (Auteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_(striptekenaar)"
    title: "Morris (striptekenaar)"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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