# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jack-paar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:23:31.604Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jack-paar"
name: "Jack Paar"
slug: "jack-paar"
description: "Jack Harold Paar was an American talk show host, writer, radio and television comedian, and film actor. He was the second host of The Tonight Show from 1957 to 1962. Time magazine's obituary of Paar reported wryly, \"His fans would remember him as the fellow who split talk show history into two eras: Before Paar and Below Paar.\""
tagline: "American author, radio and television comedian and talk show host (1918-2004)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jack_Paar_Up_to_Paar.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: "1918-05-01"
deathDate: "2004-01-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.86
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.951432
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0654967/"
    handle:    "nm0654967"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Paar"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%83_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "چاك پار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%DA%A9_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "جاک پار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Paar"
    title: "Jack Paar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Paar"
    title: "Jack Paar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Paar"
    title: "Jack Paar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Paar"
    title: "Jack Paar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Paar"
    title: "Jack Paar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Paar"
    title: "Jack Paar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Paar"
    title: "Jack Paar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Paar"
    title: "Jack Paar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Paar"
    title: "Jack Paar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Paar"
    title: "Jack Paar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Paar"
    title: "Jack Paar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Paar"
    title: "Jack Paar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BA_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%80"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1587581"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/133074"
    title: "Jack Paar"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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