# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dave-spector
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:41:04.519Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dave-spector"
name: "Dave Spector"
slug: "dave-spector"
description: "Dave Spector  is an American gaijin tarento, television producer, author, and actor based in Japan. Originally from Chicago, he moved to Japan in 1983 after visiting as a producer with the American television program Ripley's Believe It or Not!. He appears regularly as a commentator on several different Japanese television programs, including a Wednesday spot on Fuji TV's daily morning news program Tokudane!, and TBS's weekly Sunday Japon."
tagline: "American TV personality and producer in Japan"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/27th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_Dave_Spector.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: "1954-05-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.09
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.274613333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/dave_spector"
    handle:    "dave_spector"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0817470/"
    handle:    "nm0817470"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.spector.co.jp"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Spector"
    title: "Dave Spector"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/660ca146-2153-44d9-bd8d-057cd58d6e3b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%A4_%D8%B3%D9%BE%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "داڤ سپيكتور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%95%DB%8C%DA%A4_%D8%B3%D9%BE%DB%8E%DA%A9%D8%AA%DB%95%D8%B1"
    title: "دەیڤ سپێکتەر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Spector"
    title: "Dave Spector"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%BC%E3%83%96%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9A%E3%82%AF%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC"
    title: "デーブ・スペクター"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3017262"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/51462"
    title: "Dave Spector"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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