# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/spencer-bell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:13:39.341Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/spencer-bell"
name: "Spencer Bell"
slug: "spencer-bell"
description: "Spencer Bell was an American stage and film actor, best known for playing opposite Larry Semon in many of his silent comedy shorts from the late 1910s to 1928. Bell was one of the first African American comedic actors of the silent film era, and was the first to be signed to film contract. Over the course of his fifteen-year film career, Bell appeared in more than seventy comedy shorts."
tagline: "Actor (1887-1935)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Spencer_Bell%2C_Hop_to_it.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: "1887-09-25"
deathDate: "1935-08-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.38
  momentum:             0.6467661691542288
  historical:           7.874370666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0068520/"
    handle:    "nm0068520"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%BE%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%B1_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%84_(%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "اسپینسر بیل (اداکار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Bell_(akteur)"
    title: "Spencer Bell (akteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "سبنسر بيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "سبنسر بيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Bell_(actor)"
    title: "Spencer Bell (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Bell"
    title: "Spencer Bell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%BE%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%84"
    title: "اسپنسر بل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Bell"
    title: "Spencer Bell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Bell"
    title: "Spencer Bell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3493012"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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