# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/duane-jones
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:56:23.091Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/duane-jones"
name: "Duane Jones"
slug: "duane-jones"
description: "Duane Lionel Jones was an American actor. He was best known for his lead role as Ben in the 1968 horror film Night of the Living Dead. He was later director of the Maguire Theater at the State University of New York at Old Westbury, and the artistic director of the Richard Allen Center for Culture and Art in Manhattan."
tagline: "American actor (1937–1988)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Duane_Jones_as_Ben_in_Night_of_the_Living_Dead_bw.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: "1937-02-02"
deathDate: "1988-07-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.39008405275122
  historical:           17.33673866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0427977"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump