# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shane-rimmer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:43:56.357Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shane-rimmer"
name: "Shane Rimmer"
slug: "shane-rimmer"
description: "Shane Lance Deacon, known professionally as Shane Rimmer, was a Canadian actor and screenwriter who spent the majority of his career in the United Kingdom. The self-proclaimed \"Rent-A-Yank\" of the British entertainment industry, he appeared in over 160 films and television programmes from 1957 until his death in 2019, usually playing supporting North American characters."
tagline: "Canadian actor (1929-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shane_Rimmer_as_Captain_Owens_in_Dr_Strangelove.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1929-05-28"
deathDate: "2019-03-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.52
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.50699733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0727300/"
    handle:    "nm0727300"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شاين ريمر"
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    title: "شین ریمر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shane Rimmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Rimmer"
    title: "Shane Rimmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shane Rimmer"
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    title: "شین ریمر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shane Rimmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Rimmer"
    title: "Shane Rimmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shane Rimmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Shane Rimmer"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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