# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/howard-mcgillin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:36:39.332Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/howard-mcgillin"
name: "Howard McGillin"
slug: "howard-mcgillin"
description: "Howard McGillin is an American actor and music vocalist. He is known for originating the role of John Jasper in The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1985) and for portraying the title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera from 1999 to 2009 on Broadway."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/yNixhNO6v5TNfs2cZvCcesWS6CS.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1953-11-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.78
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.567034666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0569294/"
    handle:    "nm0569294"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/593968"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "هوارد ماكجيلين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_McGillin"
    title: "Howard McGillin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%85%DA%A9%E2%80%8C%DA%AF%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "هاوارد مک‌گلین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_McGillin"
    title: "Howard McGillin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_McGillin"
    title: "Howard McGillin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_McGillin"
    title: "Howard McGillin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e409f90c-2c6c-4533-945a-b8c38cee353f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3141581"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/88946"
    title: "Howard McGillin"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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