# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/red-west
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:00:16.750Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/red-west"
name: "Red West"
slug: "red-west"
description: "Robert Gene \"Red\" West was an American actor, film stuntman and songwriter. He was known for being a close confidant and bodyguard for rock and roll singer Elvis Presley. Upon his firing, West co-wrote the controversial Elvis: What Happened?, a tell-all book about Elvis co written with two other Presley associates and Steve Dunleavy, a Rupert Murdoch journalist; the book was published in May 1977 in UK and later in USA."
tagline: "American actor, film stuntman and songwriter (1936-2017)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/05/RedWestPicture.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: "1936-03-08"
deathDate: "2017-07-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.34
  momentum:             6.373937677053825
  historical:           15.76248933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0922307/"
    handle:    "nm0922307"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ريد ويست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ڕێد وێست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Red West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_West"
    title: "Red West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "رد وست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_West"
    title: "Red West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_West"
    title: "Red West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_West"
    title: "Red West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A0%88%EB%93%9C_%EC%9B%A8%EC%8A%A4%ED%8A%B8"
    title: "레드 웨스트"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Red West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_West"
    title: "Red West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D1%8D%D1%81%D1%82%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%B4"
    title: "Уэст, Ред"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Red West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ریڈ ویسٹ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1648686"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/60508"
    title: "Red West"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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