# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ray-mcdonald
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:43:37.840Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ray-mcdonald"
name: "Ray McDonald"
slug: "ray-mcdonald"
description: "Ray McDonald was a tap dancer who started his career as a vaudeville act with his older sister Grace McDonald, before being cast in a hit Broadway show, and then in films. He had a starring role in the films Down in San Diego and Born to Sing, some leading roles in other films, as well as lesser roles including in uncredited dance sequences."
tagline: "American actor (1921-1959)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/sdKjmG93Q7er1IzjYig7nT0LkTF.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: "1920-06-27"
deathDate: "1959-02-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.73
  momentum:             22.79850746268657
  historical:           6.150505333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0567957/"
    handle:    "nm0567957"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%92_%D9%85%DB%8C%DA%A9%DA%88%D9%88%D9%86%D9%84%DA%88_(%D8%B1%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B5%DB%81)"
    title: "رے میکڈونلڈ (رقاصہ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_McDonald_(danser)"
    title: "Ray McDonald (danser)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_McDonald_(dancer)"
    title: "Ray McDonald (dancer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D9%85%DA%A9%E2%80%8C%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF"
    title: "ری مک‌دونالد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_McDonald"
    title: "Ray McDonald"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A0%88%EC%9D%B4_%EB%A7%A5%EB%8F%84%EB%84%90%EB%93%9C"
    title: "레이 맥도널드"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65048875"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/588885"
    title: "Ray McDonald"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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