# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-dunn-q471281
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:02:53.127Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-dunn-q471281"
name: "James Dunn"
slug: "james-dunn-q471281"
description: "James Howard Dunn, billed as Jimmy Dunn in his early career, was an American actor and vaudeville performer. The son of a New York stockbroker, he initially worked in his father's firm but was more interested in theater. He landed jobs as an extra in short films produced by Paramount Pictures in its Long Island studio, and also performed with several stock theater companies, culminating with playing the male lead in the 1929 Broadway musical Sweet Adeline. This performance attracted the attention of film studio executives, and in 1931, Fox Film signed him to a Hollywood contract."
tagline: "Actor, Vaudeville performer (1901–1967)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Dunn.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: "1901-11-02"
deathDate: "1967-09-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.16
  momentum:             0.9583333333333335
  historical:           21.923084
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0007223"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Dunn (Schauspieler)"
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    title: "ג'יימס דאן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ջեյմս Դան"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Dunn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/131618"
    title: "James Dunn"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump