# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dakin-matthews
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:49:25.623Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dakin-matthews"
name: "Dakin Matthews"
slug: "dakin-matthews"
description: "Melvin Richard \"Dakin\" Matthews is an American actor, playwright, theatre director, and theatrical scholar. He is best known as Herb Kelcher in My Two Dads (1987–1989), Hanlin Charleston in Gilmore Girls (2000–2007), Joe Heffernan in The King of Queens (1998-2007), and as Reverend Sikes in Desperate Housewives (2004–2012)."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dakin_Matthews_in_Bean.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1940-11-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.27
  momentum:             1.647956892680736
  historical:           15.24020266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0559977/"
    handle:    "nm0559977"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/3717228"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "داكين ماتيوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "داكين ماتيوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakin_Matthews"
    title: "Dakin Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "داکین متیوز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakin_Matthews"
    title: "Dakin Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakin_Matthews"
    title: "Dakin Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakin_Matthews"
    title: "Dakin Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "داکین متیوز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakin_Matthews"
    title: "Dakin Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakin_Matthews"
    title: "Dakin Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA"
    title: "デイキン・マシューズ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8D%B0%EC%9D%B4%ED%82%A8_%EB%A7%A4%EC%8A%88%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "데이킨 매슈스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakin_Matthews"
    title: "Dakin Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakin_Matthews"
    title: "Dakin Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%88%D8%A7%DA%A9%D9%86_%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AA%DA%BE%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "ڈاکن میتھیوز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4284189b-88e5-49d6-b534-62d73dc44629"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1157743"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/43364"
    title: "Dakin Matthews"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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