# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-ricketts
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:50:21.725Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-ricketts"
name: "Tom Ricketts"
slug: "tom-ricketts"
description: "Thomas B. Ricketts was an English-born American stage and film actor and director who was a pioneer in the film industry. He portrayed Ebenezer Scrooge in the first American film adaptation of A Christmas Carol (1908), and directed one of the first motion pictures ever made in Hollywood. After directing scores of silent films, including the first film to be released by Universal Pictures, Ricketts became a prominent character actor."
tagline: "English-American actor and director (1853–1939)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas-Ricketts-1914.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1853-01-15"
deathDate: "1939-01-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.28743866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0725529/"
    handle:    "nm0725529"
sources:
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    title: "توم ريكيتس"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Ricketts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Ricketts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Ricketts"
    title: "Tom Ricketts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Ricketts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Ricketts"
    title: "Tom Ricketts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Ricketts"
    title: "Tom Ricketts"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3530860"
    title: "Wikidata"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5225442"
    title: "Tom Ricketts"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump