# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/deforest-covan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:46:07.395Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/deforest-covan"
name: "DeForest Covan"
slug: "deforest-covan"
description: "DeForest Covan was an American actor, dancer, and former black vaudeville performer. Starting with his first film appearance in The Singing Kid (1936), his acting career continued into the 1990s. In 1973, he appeared in an episode of Sanford and Son as Woodrow Anderson, in that character's first appearance in the series. From 1974 to 1975, he held a recurring role on the first season of That's My Mama as a barbershop patron. In 1978, he appeared in two episodes of the television sitcom Good Times, as Reverend Beasley in the episode \"Something Old, Something New\", and as Shorty in the episode \"Write On, Thelma\". His other television appearances included Martin (1993) and NYPD Blue (1993)."
tagline: "American actor (1917-2007)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/jAgT5qtoReXLm1GA0ZT1cRLO39a.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: "1917-09-09"
deathDate: "2007-09-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44
  momentum:             3.474801061007958
  historical:           6.418288
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0184369/"
    handle:    "nm0184369"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeForest_Covan"
    title: "DeForest Covan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديفوريست كوفان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديفوريست كوفان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%81%DB%86%DA%95%DB%8E%D8%B3%D8%AA_%DA%A9%DB%86%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "دیفۆڕێست کۆڤان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeForest_Covan"
    title: "DeForest Covan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%88%DB%8C_%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%B9_%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ڈی فارسٹ کوون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5243887"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1214134"
    title: "DeForest Covan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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