# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wilfrid-brambell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:43:54.092Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wilfrid-brambell"
name: "Wilfrid Brambell"
slug: "wilfrid-brambell"
description: "Henry Wilfrid Brambell was an Irish actor. He was best known for playing the grubby rag-and-bone man Albert Steptoe alongside Harry H. Corbett in the long-running BBC television sitcom Steptoe and Son. He achieved international recognition in 1964 for his appearance alongside the Beatles in A Hard Day's Night, playing the fictional grandfather of Paul McCartney."
tagline: "Irish-born English film and television actor (1912–1985)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wilfred_Bramble_(Hospital_Fete)_(5722158967)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1912-03-22"
deathDate: "1985-01-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.75
  momentum:             11.62675817091199
  historical:           11.67884133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0104183/"
    handle:    "nm0104183"
sources:
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    title: "ویلفرید برامبل"
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  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9C%8C%ED%94%84%EB%A6%AC%EB%93%9C_%EB%B8%8C%EB%9E%8C%EB%B2%A8"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump