# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shirley-dinsdale
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:28:48.809Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shirley-dinsdale"
name: "Shirley Dinsdale"
slug: "shirley-dinsdale"
description: "Shirley Dinsdale Layburn, better known by her maiden name of Shirley Dinsdale, was an American ventriloquist and television and radio personality of the 1940s and early 1950s."
tagline: "American actress, ventriloquist, and television and radio personality (1926-1999)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1926-10-31"
deathDate: "1999-05-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.23
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.141217333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1589018/"
    handle:    "nm1589018"
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Dinsdale"
    title: "Shirley Dinsdale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Dinsdale"
    title: "Shirley Dinsdale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "شيرلى دينسديل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Dinsdale"
    title: "Shirley Dinsdale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Dinsdale"
    title: "Shirley Dinsdale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B7%E0%B5%87%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%BF_%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B5%BB%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E2%80%8D%E0%B4%A1%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BF%E0%B5%BD_%E0%B4%B2%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%AC%E0%B5%BA"
    title: "ഷേർലി ഡിൻസ്‍ഡെയിൽ ലേബൺ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Dinsdale"
    title: "Shirley Dinsdale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7498737"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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