# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roscoe-karns
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:30:26.861Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roscoe-karns"
name: "Roscoe Karns"
slug: "roscoe-karns"
description: "Roscoe Karns was an American actor who appeared in nearly 150 films between 1915 and 1964. He specialized in cynical, wise-cracking characters, and his rapid-fire delivery enlivened many comedies and crime thrillers in the 1930s and 1940s."
tagline: "Actor (1891-1970)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roscoe_Karns_by_Jack_Freulich.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: "1891-09-07"
deathDate: "1970-02-06"
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