# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-shanks
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:37:26.683Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-shanks"
name: "Don Shanks"
slug: "don-shanks"
description: "Donald L. Shanks is an American actor and stuntman, known for his role as Michael Myers in Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers, and Nakoma, the Native American friend of the title character in the 1977 television series The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams."
tagline: "American stuntman"
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: "1950-02-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.89
  momentum:             5.405027932960893
  historical:           13.25123333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0788213/"
    handle:    "nm0788213"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%A9%D8%B3_(%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%B9%D9%86%D9%B9_%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86)"
    title: "ڈان شینکس (اسٹنٹ مین)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Shanks_(stuntman)"
    title: "Don Shanks (stuntman)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "دون شانكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D8%B3_(%D9%85%D9%85%D8%AB%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "دون شانكس (ممثل افلام من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%86_%D8%B4%D9%86%DA%A9%D8%B3_(%D8%A8%D8%AF%D9%84%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C)"
    title: "دن شنکس (بدلکاری)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Shanks"
    title: "Don Shanks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Shanks"
    title: "Don Shanks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Shanks_(stuntman)"
    title: "Don Shanks (stuntman)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Shanks"
    title: "Donald Shanks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%86_%D8%B4%D9%86%DA%A9%D8%B3_(%D8%A8%D8%AF%D9%84%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C)"
    title: "دن شنکس (بدلکاری)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Shanks"
    title: "Don Shanks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Shanks"
    title: "Don Shanks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8F%88_%EC%84%95%ED%81%AC%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "돈 섕크스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Shanks"
    title: "Don Shanks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Shanks"
    title: "Don Shanks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q204395"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/33299"
    title: "Don Shanks"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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