# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/oscar-levant
# Generated: 2026-09-03T15:06:54.446Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/oscar-levant"
name: "Oscar Levant"
slug: "oscar-levant"
description: "Oscar Levant was an American concert pianist, composer, conductor and actor born in Pittsburgh, U.S., from Russian-emigrant parents. Levant studied under Zygmunt Stojowski and Arnold Schoenberg, and has 33 albums as a pianist, having recorded works of numerous classical composers. For a period of time during the 1940s, he had been the highest paid concert pianist in the United States."
tagline: "American comedian, composer, pianist and actor (1906-1972)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Oscar_Levant_in_Rhapsody_in_Blue_trailer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Comedians"
  slug: "comedians"
profileType:
  name: "Comedian"
  slug: "comedian"
birthDate: "1906-12-27"
deathDate: "1972-08-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0505157"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump