# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hal-fishman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:35:10.966Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hal-fishman"
name: "Hal Fishman"
slug: "hal-fishman"
description: "Harold Fishman was a local news anchor in the Los Angeles area, serving on-air with Los Angeles-area television stations continuously from 1960 until his death in 2007. Fishman was the longest-running news anchor in the history of American television before Dave Ward surpassed him in 2015. He was also a record-holding aviator. \"The Simpsons\" cartoon television anchorman Kent Brockman was partially inspired by Hal Fishman."
tagline: "American journalist (1931-2007)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6d/Halzu9.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1931-08-25"
deathDate: "2007-08-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.74
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.040716
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0279873/"
    handle:    "nm0279873"
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Fishman"
    title: "Hal Fishman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%84_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "هال فيشمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%84_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "هال فيشمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Fishman"
    title: "Hal Fishman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Fishman"
    title: "Hal Fishman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Fishman"
    title: "Hal Fishman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Fishman"
    title: "Hal Fishman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3782501"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/116627"
    title: "Hal Fishman"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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