# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ben-jones-q506021
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:14:40.339Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ben-jones-q506021"
name: "Ben Jones"
slug: "ben-jones-q506021"
description: "Benjamin Lewis Jones is an American actor, politician, playwright, and essayist, best known for his role as Cooter Davenport in The Dukes of Hazzard. Jones also served for four years in the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1989, to January 3, 1993."
tagline: "American actor and politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ben_L._Jones_101st_Congress_1989.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: "1941-08-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.35
  momentum:             3.044197745077236
  historical:           8.604521333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0427549/"
    handle:    "nm0427549"
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Jones"
    title: "Ben Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "بن جونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "بن جونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2_(%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%DA%86%DB%8C)"
    title: "بن جونز (سیاستچی)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8E%D9%86_%D8%AC%DB%86%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "بێن جۆنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Jones_(Politiker%2C_1941)"
    title: "Ben Jones (Politiker, 1941)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Jones_(American_actor_and_politician)"
    title: "Ben Jones (American actor and politician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Jones_(akteur)"
    title: "Ben Jones (akteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Jones_(attore)"
    title: "Ben Jones (attore)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Jones"
    title: "Ben Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q506021"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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