# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-ford
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:16:35.470Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-ford"
name: "Paul Ford"
slug: "paul-ford"
description: "Paul Ford Weaver was an American character actor and comedic actor who came to specialize in portraying authority figures whose ineptitude and pompous demeanor were played for comic effect, notably as Mayor George Shinn in the 1957 Broadway musical comedy The Music Man, followed five years later by repeating the role in The Music Man,, and on television as U.S. Army Colonel John T. Hall on several seasons of the military comedy The Phil Silvers Show (1955–1959)."
tagline: "Comedy actor (1901–1976)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Ford_Baileys_of_Balboa_1964.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1901-11-02"
deathDate: "1976-04-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.27
  momentum:             1.370999604899249
  historical:           13.43694133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0285818/"
    handle:    "nm0285818"
sources:
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    title: "پال فورڈ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Ford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بول فورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پال فورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Ford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ford"
    title: "Paul Ford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ford"
    title: "Paul Ford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%84_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "پال فورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ford"
    title: "Paul Ford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ford"
    title: "Paul Ford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ford"
    title: "Paul Ford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8F%B4_%ED%8F%AC%EB%93%9C"
    title: "폴 포드"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%2C_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB"
    title: "Форд, Пол"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Пол Форд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ford"
    title: "Paul Ford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q952205"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/127641"
    title: "Paul Ford"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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