# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-kiley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:38:09.889Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-kiley"
name: "Richard Kiley"
slug: "richard-kiley"
description: "Richard Paul Kiley was an American stage, film, and television actor and singer. He is best known for his distinguished theatrical career in which he twice won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. Kiley originated the role of Don Quixote in the original 1965 production of the Broadway musical Man of La Mancha and was the first to sing and record \"The Impossible Dream\", the hit song from the show. In the 1953 hit musical Kismet, he played the Caliph in the original Broadway cast and as such was one of the quartet who sang \"And This Is My Beloved\". He also won four Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards during his five-decade career and his \"sonorous baritone\" was also featured in the narration of a number of documentaries and other films. At the time of his death, Kiley was described as \"one of theater's most distinguished and versatile actors\" and as \"an indispensable actor, the kind of performer who could be called on to play kings and commoners and a diversity of characters in between.\""
tagline: "American actor (1922-1999)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Kiley_1960.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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birthDate: "1922-03-31"
deathDate: "1999-03-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump