# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-stanley-keane
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:51:42.975Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-stanley-keane"
name: "Walter Stanley Keane"
slug: "walter-stanley-keane"
description: "Walter Stanley Keane was an American plagiarist who became famous in the 1960s as the claimed painter of a series of widely reproduced paintings depicting vulnerable subjects with enormous eyes. The paintings are now accepted as having been painted by his then-wife, Margaret Keane."
tagline: "American plagiarist (1915–2000)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/58/Walter_Stanley_Keane.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1915-10-07"
deathDate: "2000-12-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.62
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.95770133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Keane"
    title: "Walter Stanley Keane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A"
    title: "والتر كيني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Keane"
    title: "Walter Keane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "والتر کین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Keane"
    title: "Walter Keane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Keane"
    title: "Walter Keane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A9%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ウォルター・キーン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Keane"
    title: "Walter Keane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Keane"
    title: "Walter Keane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Кин, Уолтер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Keane"
    title: "Walter Keane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8F%AF%E7%89%B9%C2%B7%E5%9F%BA%E6%81%A9"
    title: "華特·基恩"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walter_Keane"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7965324"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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