# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hugh-downs
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:12:48.511Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hugh-downs"
name: "Hugh Downs"
slug: "hugh-downs"
description: "Hugh Malcolm Downs was an American television presenter, radio personality, author, and music composer. A regular television presence from the mid-1940s until the late 1990s, he had several successful roles on morning, prime-time, and late-night television. For several years, he held the certified Guinness World Record for the most hours on commercial network television before being surpassed by Regis Philbin, who died 24 days after he did."
tagline: "American broadcaster (1921–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hugh_Downs_1972.JPG?width=1200"
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: "1921-02-14"
deathDate: "2020-07-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.47
  momentum:             1.85614849187935
  historical:           12.66210533333333
  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/nm0236180/"
    handle:    "nm0236180"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "هيو دونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هيو دونز"
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    title: "ھیو داونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Hugh Downs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Downs"
    title: "Hugh Downs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Downs"
    title: "Hugh Downs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Downs"
    title: "Hugh Downs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Downs"
    title: "Hugh Downs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Downs"
    title: "Hugh Downs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "休·唐斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hugh_Downs"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/11392161-6fed-4372-be50-5398727a097a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3097923"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/119780"
    title: "Hugh Downs"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump