# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shirley-walker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:44:50.531Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shirley-walker"
name: "Shirley Walker"
slug: "shirley-walker"
description: "Shirley Anne Walker was an American film and television composer and conductor. She was one of the few female film score composers working in Hollywood during her career. Walker was one of the first female composers to earn a solo score credit on a major Hollywood motion picture and according to the Los Angeles Times, is remembered as a pioneer for women in the film industry."
tagline: "American film and television composer (1945–2006)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/xvjsJLILyUn2Rqr8nsLccPDoLv6.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1945-04-10"
deathDate: "2006-11-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.079704
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002980/"
    handle:    "nm0002980"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://walker.cinemusic.net"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump