# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/howard-st-john
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:28:33.512Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/howard-st-john"
name: "Howard St. John"
slug: "howard-st-john"
description: "Howard St. John was a Chicago-born character actor who specialized in unsympathetic roles. His work spanned Broadway, film and television. Among his best-remembered roles are the bombastic General Bullmoose in the stage and screen versions of the 1956 musical Li'l Abner, and his supporting roles in the classic comedies Born Yesterday (1950) and One, Two, Three (1961)."
tagline: "American actor (1905-1974)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Howard_St._John_in_The_Sun_Sets_at_Dawn.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: "1905-10-09"
deathDate: "1974-03-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.50745466666667
  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/nm0820643/"
    handle:    "nm0820643"
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    title: "Howard St. John"
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    title: "Howard St. John"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump