# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-newton-howard
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:28:56.753Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-newton-howard"
name: "James Newton Howard"
slug: "james-newton-howard"
description: "James Newton Howard is an American film composer, orchestrator and music producer. He has scored over 100 films and is the recipient of a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, and nine nominations for Academy Awards."
tagline: "American composer and music producer (born 1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Newton_Howard.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1951-06-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 85400
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump