# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/howard-mcnear
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:28:07.425Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/howard-mcnear"
name: "Howard McNear"
slug: "howard-mcnear"
description: "Howard Terbell McNear was an American stage, screen, and radio character actor. He is best remembered as the original voice of Doc Adams in the radio version of Gunsmoke and as Floyd Lawson on The Andy Griffith Show (1961–1967)."
tagline: "Actor (1905-1969)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Howard_McNear_in_Four_Star_Playhouse_(Welcome_Home).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: "1905-01-27"
deathDate: "1969-01-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.07
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.721444
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0573830/"
    handle:    "nm0573830"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هوارد مكنير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هاوارد مک‌نیر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ھاوارد مەکنیر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_McNear"
    title: "Howard McNear"
    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%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B1"
    title: "هاوارد مک‌نیر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_McNear"
    title: "Howard McNear"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_McNear"
    title: "Howard McNear"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AF%E3%83%8B%E3%82%A2"
    title: "ハワード・マクニア"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "하워드 맥니어"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%81%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%88_%D9%85%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A6%D8%B1"
    title: "ہاورڈ میک نیئر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11327044"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/19786"
    title: "Howard McNear"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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