# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-preston
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:18:35.191Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-preston"
name: "Robert Preston"
slug: "robert-preston"
description: "Robert Preston Meservey was an American stage and screen actor best-known for his role as Professor Harold Hill in the 1957 musical The Music Man, for which he received the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He reprised the role in the 1962 film adaptation, and received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy nomination."
tagline: "American actor and singer (1918–1987)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Preston-publicity.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1918-06-08"
deathDate: "1987-03-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.205510768860546
  historical:           23.46370133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  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