# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/red-nichols
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:15:10.238Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/red-nichols"
name: "Red Nichols"
slug: "red-nichols"
description: "Ernest Loring \"Red\" Nichols was an American jazz cornetist, composer, and jazz bandleader. He was one of the most prolific and influential jazz musicians in the late 1920s and early 1930s, appearing on over 4,000 recordings. In 1959, a biopic was made of his life and career, The Five Pennies, starring Danny Kaye."
tagline: "American jazz musician (1905–1965)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Red_Nichols_edit.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: "1905-05-08"
deathDate: "1965-06-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.74
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.91587866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0629702/"
    handle:    "nm0629702"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ريد نيكولز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ريد نيكولز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Red Nichols"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Nichols"
    title: "Red Nichols"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Nichols"
    title: "Red Nichols"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Nichols"
    title: "Red Nichols"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loring_%C2%AB_Red_%C2%BB_Nichols"
    title: "Loring « Red » Nichols"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "רד ניקולס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Red Nichols"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Nichols"
    title: "Red Nichols"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Nichols"
    title: "Red Nichols"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Nichols"
    title: "Red Nichols"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Nichols"
    title: "Red Nichols"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Nichols"
    title: "Red Nichols"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Nichols"
    title: "Red Nichols"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q495464"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1161072"
    title: "Red Nichols"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump