# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rick-aiello
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:54:32.925Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rick-aiello"
name: "Rick Aiello"
slug: "rick-aiello"
description: "Richard Aiello was an American film and television actor. He was known for playing Officer Long in the Spike Lee films Do the Right Thing and Jungle Fever."
tagline: "Actor (1955–2021)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/jsdOgza0pIsS5Jcvj3nLJnxgDEP.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: "1955-09-21"
deathDate: "2021-07-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.1
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.079313333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0014519/"
    handle:    "nm0014519"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D8%A2%D8%A6%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%88"
    title: "رک آئیلو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88"
    title: "ريك ايلو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%95%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D8%A6%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%86"
    title: "ڕیک ئایلۆ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Aiello"
    title: "Rick Aiello"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Aiello"
    title: "Rick Aiello"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Aiello"
    title: "Rick Aiello"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7331187"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/128597"
    title: "Rick Aiello"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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