# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/spade-cooley
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:22:36.159Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/spade-cooley"
name: "Spade Cooley"
slug: "spade-cooley"
description: "Donnell Clyde \"Spade\" Cooley was an American Western swing musician, big-band leader, actor, and television personality. In 1961, he was convicted of the murder of his second wife, Ella Mae Evans."
tagline: "American big band leader, actor, television personality (1910–1969)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Spade_Cooley_Billboard_alt.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1910-12-17"
deathDate: "1969-11-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.45
  momentum:             3.863033091488232
  historical:           7.748690666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0177622/"
    handle:    "nm0177622"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/869935"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "سپاد كولى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%BE%DB%95%DB%8C%D8%AF_%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "سپەید کولی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spade_Cooley"
    title: "Spade Cooley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spade_Cooley"
    title: "Spade Cooley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spade_Cooley"
    title: "Spade Cooley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spade_Cooley"
    title: "Spade Cooley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/2c08026e-c7dc-4bca-b9f3-74bb3621b586"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q366469"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/121242"
    title: "Spade Cooley"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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