# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jack-recknitz
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:35:54.937Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jack-recknitz"
name: "Jack Recknitz"
slug: "jack-recknitz"
description: "Jack Recknitz was a German and Polish actor. Born 25 May 1931 in Baden-Baden to a family of actors: Hans-Joachim Zinke senior and Katharina Recknitz. Early in his youth he started working for the Leipzig Radio as a speaker and news anchor, as well as appearing in various theatres in the German Democratic Republic. In 1953 he graduated from Schauspielschule in Mannheim and passed his actors' exams as an extramural student."
tagline: "Polish-German actor"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/daSI4NWfIRKQoAO1kfl31vhTjLa.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1931-05-25"
deathDate: "2013-01-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.882830666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0714522/"
    handle:    "nm0714522"
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Recknitz"
    title: "Jack Recknitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Joachim_Recknitz"
    title: "Hans-Joachim Recknitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Recknitz"
    title: "Jack Recknitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Recknitz"
    title: "Jack Recknitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DA%A9_%D8%B1%DA%A9%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "جک رکنیتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Recknitz"
    title: "Jack Recknitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Recknitz"
    title: "Jack Recknitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BA"
    title: "Рекниц, Джек"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4231635"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1140512"
    title: "Hans-Joachim Recknitz"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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