# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/morton-downey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:26:08.063Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/morton-downey"
name: "Morton Downey"
slug: "morton-downey"
description: "John Morton Downey, also known as Morton Downey, was an American singer and entertainer popular in the United States in the first half of the 20th century, enjoying his greatest success in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Downey was nicknamed \"The Irish Nightingale\"."
tagline: "American singer and entertainer (1901–1985)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Morton_Downey_-_The_Radio_Annual%2C_1943.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1901-11-14"
deathDate: "1985-10-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.22
  momentum:             10.87374581939799
  historical:           8.426969333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0236029/"
    handle:    "nm0236029"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1350074"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "مورتون دونى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C"
    title: "مورتون دونی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Downey"
    title: "Morton Downey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Downey"
    title: "Morton Downey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C"
    title: "مورتون دونی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Downey_(cantante)"
    title: "Morton Downey (cantante)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Downey"
    title: "Morton Downey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a4f74db5-8c67-4d16-86cc-d1c43ed8230b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3865974"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1243281"
    title: "Morton Downey"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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