# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-gretzky
# Generated: 2026-09-01T04:34:26.139Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-gretzky"
name: "Walter Gretzky"
slug: "walter-gretzky"
description: "Walter Gretzky was a Canadian philanthropist who was the father of Canadian ice hockey player Wayne Gretzky."
tagline: "Father of Wayne Gretzky (1938–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Walter_Gretsky_TIFF_2010_-_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1938-10-08"
deathDate: "2021-03-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.84
  momentum:             6.843065693430657
  historical:           5.299262666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1155299/"
    handle:    "nm1155299"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Gretzky"
    title: "Walter Gretzky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "والتر جريتزكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%82%D1%8D%D1%80_%D0%93%D1%80%D1%8D%D1%86%D0%BA%D1%96"
    title: "Уолтэр Грэцкі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Gretzky"
    title: "Walter Gretzky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%86%D0%BA%D1%96"
    title: "Волтер Грецкі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/583826"
    title: "Walter Gretzky"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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