# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bob-vila
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:18:07.774Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bob-vila"
name: "Bob Vila"
slug: "bob-vila"
description: "Robert Joseph Vila is an American home improvement television show host known for This Old House (1979–1989), Bob Vila's Home Again (1990–2005), and Bob Vila (2005–2007)."
tagline: "American home improvement television host"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/4xZK3NIpbHrddV0oXX8IXvImlhD.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: "1946-06-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.08
  momentum:             2.279527559055118
  historical:           6.716625333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0897306/"
    handle:    "nm0897306"
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Vila"
    title: "Bob Vila"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A8_%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "بوب فيلا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Vila"
    title: "Bob Vila"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Vila"
    title: "Bob Vila"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A8_%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "باب ویلا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Vila"
    title: "Bob Vila"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q888302"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1225557"
    title: "Bob Vila"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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