# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ben-mccain
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:42:38.282Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ben-mccain"
name: "Ben McCain"
slug: "ben-mccain"
description: "Ben McCain is an American actor, broadcaster, producer and one half of The McCain Brothers, a singing-songwriting duo. McCain appeared as news anchor Aries West in MGM's comedy Bio-Dome, the character, Travis, in Roger Corman's remake Humanoids From The Deep, and the Mayor of Gold Lick in Bruce Campbell's My Name Is Bruce. Ben and his brother, Butch McCain, also wrote and performed the theme song in My Name is Bruce titled \"The Legend of Guan Di\". McCain had a recurring role as news anchor Brock Thompson in ABC's Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and another recurring role as newscaster Don MacDonald in SyFy's Black Scorpion."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ben_McCain.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: "1955-06-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.56
  momentum:             10.51671732522796
  historical:           5.274766666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0564580/"
    handle:    "nm0564580"
sources:
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8E%D9%86_%D9%85%DB%95%DA%A9%DA%A9%DB%95%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "بێن مەککەین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "بين ماكين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "بين ماكين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_McCain"
    title: "Ben McCain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_McCain"
    title: "Ben McCain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4886141"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/239300"
    title: "Ben McCain"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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