# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arnold-johnson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:14:28.361Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arnold-johnson"
name: "Arnold Johnson"
slug: "arnold-johnson"
description: "Arnold Herbert Johnson was an American actor who played the lead role in the film Putney Swope (1969). The film was directed by Robert Downey Sr. Johnson appeared in Shaft (1971) as Cul, a friend of John Shaft and the owner of a shoeshine parlor. He also had roles in Rocky (1976) and Menace II Society (1993), as Thomas, the religious Christian grandfather of the lead character Caine."
tagline: "American actor (1921-2000)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/miC7sItXVjEW1NggW9yx5c7mOkt.jpg"
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: "1921-11-15"
deathDate: "2000-04-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.21
  momentum:             6.85546875
  historical:           7.536506666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0424523/"
    handle:    "nm0424523"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%84%DA%88_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%86_(%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "آرنلڈ جانسن (اداکار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Johnson_(akteur)"
    title: "Arnold Johnson (akteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "أرنولد جونسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%85%D9%85%D8%AB%D9%84)"
    title: "ارنولد جونسون (ممثل)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A6%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%DB%86%DA%B5%D8%AF_%D8%AC%DB%86%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "ئارنۆڵد جۆنسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Johnson_(actor)"
    title: "Arnold Johnson (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "آرنولد جانسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Johnson"
    title: "Arnold Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4795112"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/131832"
    title: "Arnold Johnson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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