# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-bacon
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:55:38.960Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-bacon"
name: "James Bacon"
slug: "james-bacon"
description: "James Bacon was an American author and journalist who also worked as an actor in film and television. He wrote historical accounts of his years observing Hollywood and a biography of Jackie Gleason."
tagline: "American biographer, columnist, memoirist, reporter, and actor (1914–2010)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/dFC4z77HdsozZtiWewFCWXsrBGB.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1914-05-12"
deathDate: "2010-09-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.75
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.549965333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0045786/"
    handle:    "nm0045786"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D8%A8%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%86_(%D9%85%D8%B5%D9%86%D9%81)"
    title: "جیمز بیکن (مصنف)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "چيمس باكون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D8%A8%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%86_(%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C%DA%86%DB%8C)"
    title: "جیمز بیکن (یازیچی)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bacon"
    title: "James Bacon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bacon_(author)"
    title: "James Bacon (author)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D8%A8%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%86_(%D9%86%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%87)"
    title: "جیمز بیکن (نویسنده)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bacon"
    title: "James Bacon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A0%9C%EC%9E%84%EC%8A%A4_%EB%B2%A0%EC%9D%B4%EC%BD%98"
    title: "제임스 베이콘"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bacon"
    title: "James Bacon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q503597"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/947974"
    title: "James Bacon"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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