# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-kerr
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:22:10.789Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-kerr"
name: "Walter Kerr"
slug: "walter-kerr"
description: "Walter Francis Kerr was an American writer and Broadway theatre critic. He also was the writer, lyricist, and/or director of several Broadway plays and musicals as well as the author of several books, generally on the subject of theater and cinema."
tagline: "American writer (1913-1996)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Helen_Hayes_and_Walter_Kerr_in_Ann_Arbor.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1913-07-08"
deathDate: "1996-10-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.12
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.824948
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0449818/"
    handle:    "nm0449818"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a18fd507-690a-4d9f-9982-9a528b4ff491"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "والتر كير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "والتر كير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Kerr_(Theaterkritiker)"
    title: "Walter Kerr (Theaterkritiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Kerr"
    title: "Walter Kerr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Kerr"
    title: "Walter Kerr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walter_Kerr"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7965342"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2904256"
    title: "Walter Kerr"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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