# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-arlen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:35:17.664Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-arlen"
name: "Walter Arlen"
slug: "walter-arlen"
description: "Walter Arlen was an Austrian and American composer, focused on songs for voice and piano. Just after completing school, he fled the Nazi regime in Vienna for the United States, where he worked as a music critic for the Los Angeles Times, and a professor of music at the Loyola Marymount University. He was recognised as a composer late in life."
tagline: "Austrian American composer and music critic (1920–2023)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/26/Walter_Arlen_-_composer.jpg"
gender: "male"
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: "1920-07-31"
deathDate: "2023-09-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.15
  momentum:             2.446808510638298
  historical:           8.150181333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5634222/"
    handle:    "nm5634222"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "والتر أرلن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "والتر ارلن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Arlen"
    title: "Walter Arlen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Arlen"
    title: "Walter Arlen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Arlen"
    title: "Walter Arlen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Arlen"
    title: "Walter Arlen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B5%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%B2%E0%A8%9F%E0%A8%B0_%E0%A8%85%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%B2%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%A8"
    title: "ਵਾਲਟਰ ਅਰਲੇਨ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Arlen"
    title: "Walter Arlen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2543471"
    title: "Wikidata"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2269410"
    title: "Walter Arlen"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump