# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jack-dodson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:29:39.738Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jack-dodson"
name: "Jack Dodson"
slug: "jack-dodson"
description: "John Smeaton \"Jack\" Dodson was an American television actor best remembered for the milquetoast character Howard Sprague on The Andy Griffith Show and its spin-off Mayberry R.F.D. From 1959 until his death in 1994, Dodson was married to television art director Mary Dodson."
tagline: "American actor (1931-1994)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jack_Dodson_%22All's_Fair%22_(1976_CBS_press_photo).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: "1931-05-16"
deathDate: "1994-09-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.67
  momentum:             0.3264144626715768
  historical:           8.555417333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0230284/"
    handle:    "nm0230284"
sources:
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    title: "جیک ڈوڈسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Dodson"
    title: "Jack Dodson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83_%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جاك دودسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جاك دودسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%DA%A9_%D8%AF%DB%86%D8%AF%D8%B3%DB%86%D9%86"
    title: "جاک دۆدسۆن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Dodson"
    title: "Jack Dodson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Dodson"
    title: "Jack Dodson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Dodson"
    title: "Jack Dodson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9E%AD_%EB%8D%94%EC%8A%A8"
    title: "잭 더슨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6112112"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/49353"
    title: "Jack Dodson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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