# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/horst-janson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:25:28.831Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/horst-janson"
name: "Horst Janson"
slug: "horst-janson"
description: "Horst Janson was a German actor. To English-speaking audiences, he is best remembered for roles as captains in the films Escape from East Berlin (1962), a German submarine captain in Murphy's War (1971), the lead role of Captain Kronos in the swash-buckling Hammer Film production Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter (1974), the German ship captain-lieutenant in the German West African-set war adventure film Shout at the Devil (1976), and a German captain in the war film Breakthrough (1979). On German television he appeared in many films and series, including as the title character in 13 episodes of Der Bastian (1973), and more than 200 episodes of Sesamstraße between 1980 and 1985."
tagline: "German film and television actor (1935–2025)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Horst_Janson_by_Stuart_Mentiply.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1935-10-04"
deathDate: "2025-01-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.8
  momentum:             3.139217470427661
  historical:           14.67741066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0418111/"
    handle:    "nm0418111"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.horst-janson.de/"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Horst Janson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Janson_(actor)"
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    title: "Horst Janson"
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    title: "호르스트 얀존"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Horst Janson"
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    title: "Horst Janson"
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    title: "Horst Janson"
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    title: "Horst Janson"
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    title: "Horst Janson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump