# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-hartman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:07:37.337Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-hartman"
name: "David Hartman"
slug: "david-hartman"
description: "David Downs Hartman is an American journalist and media host who began his media career as an actor. He currently anchors and hosts documentary programs on History and PBS. Hartman is best known as the first host of ABC's Good Morning America, from 1975 to 1987. As an actor, he starred in the 1970s as a young resident, Dr. Paul Hunter, on The Bold Ones: The New Doctors and as a teacher in the series Lucas Tanner. He acted in the 1973 TV movie remake of Miracle on 34th Street."
tagline: "Actor, television personality"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Hartman_at_the_Society_of_Experimental_Test_Pilots_Oct_5%2C_2002.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1935-05-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.18018
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0366934/"
    handle:    "nm0366934"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "دەیڤد ھارتمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Hartman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hartman_(TV_personality)"
    title: "David Hartman (TV personality)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Hartman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump