# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ralph-cooper
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:06:09.193Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ralph-cooper"
name: "Ralph Cooper"
slug: "ralph-cooper"
description: "Ralph Cooper was an American actor, screenwriter, dancer and choreographer. Cooper is best known as the original master of ceremonies and founder of amateur night at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York City, in 1935. He wrote, produced, directed and acted in ten motion pictures. Titles include The Duke Is Tops, Dark Manhattan, Gangsters on the Loose and Gang War. Because of his debonair good looks, he was known as \"dark Gable\" in the 1930s."
tagline: "American tap dancer, choreographer, actor, bandleader, singer, and writer (1908-1992)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Ralph_Cooper.jpg/330px-Ralph_Cooper.jpg"
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: "1908-01-16"
deathDate: "1992-08-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.94
  momentum:             0.6844106463878328
  historical:           7.276782666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0178313/"
    handle:    "nm0178313"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3ae6e3af-40e1-4bda-8ce2-0d63574a22eb"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1"
    title: "رالف كوبر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1"
    title: "رالف كوبر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Cooper"
    title: "Ralph Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%95%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81_%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%88%D9%BE%DB%95%D8%B1"
    title: "ڕالف کووپەر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Cooper"
    title: "Ralph Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Cooper_(actor)"
    title: "Ralph Cooper (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81_%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%BE%D8%B1"
    title: "رالف کوپر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7287362"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/939684"
    title: "Ralph Cooper"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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