# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/whitford-kane
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:01:14.981Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/whitford-kane"
name: "Whitford Kane"
slug: "whitford-kane"
description: "Whitford Kane was a noted Irish-born American stage and screen character actor remembered for playing the First Gravedigger in numerous productions of Shakespeare's Hamlet and by the students that attended his drama classes over a career that spanned nearly six decades. By the end of his long career, Whitford Kane's theatre credits had grown to fill three columns in John Parker's Who's Who in the Theatre."
tagline: "Actor (1881-1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Whitford_Kane_001.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1881-01-30"
deathDate: "1956-12-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.87
  momentum:             6.504065040650406
  historical:           5.073974666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0437463/"
    handle:    "nm0437463"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitford_Kane"
    title: "Whitford Kane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitford_Kane"
    title: "Whitford Kane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "وايتفورد كان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitford_Kane"
    title: "Whitford Kane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%B9_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%88_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "وائٹ فورڈ کین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7996479"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/239022"
    title: "Whitford Kane"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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