# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ray-teal
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:38:04.740Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ray-teal"
name: "Ray Teal"
slug: "ray-teal"
description: "Ray Elgin Teal was an American actor who appeared in more than 300 television shows and movies during his 40 year career. His most famous role was as Sheriff Roy Coffee on the television series Bonanza (1959–1972), which was only one of dozens of sheriffs on television and in movies that he played during his long and prolific career stretching from 1937 to 1970. He appeared in pictures such as Western Jamboree (1938) with Gene Autry, The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) with Fredric March and Myrna Loy, The Black Arrow (1948), Billy Wilder's Ace in the Hole (1951) and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) with Spencer Tracy and Burt Lancaster."
tagline: "Actor (1902–1976)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ray_Teal_in_One-Eyed_Jacks.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: "1902-01-12"
deathDate: "1976-04-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.42
  momentum:             6.206896551724137
  historical:           14.243756
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0853576/"
    handle:    "nm0853576"
sources:
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    title: "رے ٹیل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ray Teal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "راى تيال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Teal"
    title: "Ray Teal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "ری تیل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%95%DB%95%DB%8C_%D8%AA%DB%8C%DA%B5"
    title: "ڕەی تیڵ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Teal"
    title: "Ray Teal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Teal"
    title: "Ray Teal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Teal"
    title: "Ray Teal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "ری تیل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Teal"
    title: "Ray Teal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Teal"
    title: "Ray Teal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A0%88%EC%9D%B4_%ED%8B%B8"
    title: "레이 틸"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Teal"
    title: "Ray Teal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B8%D0%BB%2C_%D0%A0%D1%8D%D0%B9"
    title: "Тил, Рэй"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Teal"
    title: "Ray Teal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3420566"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/93624"
    title: "Ray Teal"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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