# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-karen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:29:47.923Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-karen"
name: "James Karen"
slug: "james-karen"
description: "James Karen was an American character actor of Broadway, film and television. Karen is known for his roles in Poltergeist, The China Syndrome, Wall Street, The Return of the Living Dead, Invaders from Mars and The Pursuit of Happyness, but was perhaps best known as the signature pitchman for Pathmark, famously appearing in commercials for the now-defunct East Coast-based supermarket chain from the late 1970s to the early 1990s which earned his nickname \"Mr. Pathmark\"."
tagline: "American actor (1923–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Karen_(14974515894_89b5229d48_n)_(cropped).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: "1923-11-28"
deathDate: "2018-10-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.71
  momentum:             0.4055908077516723
  historical:           21.83686
  currentAttention:     20.12
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0439170/"
    handle:    "nm0439170"
sources:
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    title: "Карен, Джеймс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "James Karen"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump