# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roy-gardner
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:44:37.786Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roy-gardner"
name: "Roy Gardner"
slug: "roy-gardner"
description: "Roy G. Gardner was an American criminal active during the 1920s. He stole a total of more than $350,000 in cash and securities and several times escaped from custody. He is said to have been the most hunted man in Pacific Coast history, having had a $5,000 reward for his head three times in less than a year, and newspapers in the West referred to him as the \"Smiling Bandit\", the \"Mail Train Bandit\", and the \"King of the Escape Artists\" He is a former prisoner of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary (1934–38)."
tagline: "American prison escapee (1884–1940)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/iRaZHwLoQwk4zvgmwLgTmJsixL5.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: "1884-01-05"
deathDate: "1940-01-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.35
  momentum:             0.4347826086956523
  historical:           6.153385333333334
  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/nm0814430/"
    handle:    "nm0814430"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%92_%DA%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%88%D9%86%D8%B1_(%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%A9_%DA%88%D8%A7%DA%A9%D9%88)"
    title: "رائے گارڈنر (بینک ڈاکو)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A_%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%86%D8%B1_(%D9%85%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%85)"
    title: "روي غاردنر (مجرم)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%89_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%86%D8%B1_(%D9%85%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%85_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "روى جاردنر (مجرم من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Gardner"
    title: "Roy Gardner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Gardner_(bank_robber)"
    title: "Roy Gardner (bank robber)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Gardner"
    title: "Roy Gardner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2170831"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2004094"
    title: "Roy William Gardner"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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