# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/badja-djola
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:59:41.113Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/badja-djola"
name: "Badja Djola"
slug: "badja-djola"
description: "Badja Medu Djola was an American actor from Brooklyn, New York who worked primarily within black film. He is best known for Mississippi Burning, Penitentiary, A Rage in Harlem, and Who's the Man?. He was often seen in tough or villainous roles."
tagline: "American actor (1948-2005)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/23T7W3ZhU7BXmgt0LKc5BB6yFIX.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: "1948-04-09"
deathDate: "2005-01-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.97
  momentum:             8.926502869000096
  historical:           7.536450666666666
  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/nm0229200/"
    handle:    "nm0229200"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%AC%D8%A7_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "بادجا جولا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badja_Djola"
    title: "Badja Djola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AF%DA%86%D8%A7_%D8%AF%DA%86%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "بادچا دچولا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badja_Djola"
    title: "Badja Djola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%95%D8%AF%D8%AC%D8%A7_%D8%AC%DB%86%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "بەدجا جۆلا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badja_Djola"
    title: "Badja Djola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badja_Djola"
    title: "Badja Djola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badja_Djola"
    title: "Badja Djola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4840982"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/107009"
    title: "Badja Djola"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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