# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/buck-young
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:43:48.666Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/buck-young"
name: "Buck Young"
slug: "buck-young"
description: "John Otto \"Buck\" Young was an American actor who played the role as Sergeant Whipple on the Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. TV series, and Deputy Joe Watson on The Andy Griffith Show."
tagline: "American actor (1920-2000)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/Buck_Young_in_The_Andy_Griffith_Show_1965.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: "1920-04-12"
deathDate: "2000-02-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.71
  momentum:             6.009933774834439
  historical:           7.701478666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0949344/"
    handle:    "nm0949344"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DA%A9_%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "بک ینگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Young"
    title: "Buck Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%83_%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%BA"
    title: "باك يونغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%83_%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "باك يونج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Young"
    title: "Buck Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Young"
    title: "Buck Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Young"
    title: "Buck Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B2%85_%EC%98%81"
    title: "벅 영"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2927461"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1213236"
    title: "Buck Young"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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