# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-urbaniak
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:30:06.050Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-urbaniak"
name: "James Urbaniak"
slug: "james-urbaniak"
description: "James Christian Urbaniak is an American actor. As a character actor, is best known for his roles as Simon Grim in three Hal Hartley films: Henry Fool (1997), Fay Grim (2006) and Ned Rifle (2014), Robert Crumb in American Splendor (2003), Grant Grunderschmidt on Review (2014–2017), and Arthur Tack on Difficult People (2015–2017). Urbaniak also voiced Dr. Thaddeus \"Rusty\" Venture on Cartoon Network/Adult Swim's animated series The Venture Bros. (2003–2023)."
tagline: "American character actor (born 1963)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Urbaniak_by_Gage_Skidmore.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: "1963-09-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           61.52
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.88872
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 813
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/jamesurbaniak"
    handle:    "jamesurbaniak"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/jamesurbaniak/"
    handle:    "jamesurbaniak"
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    handle:    "jamesurbaniak"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0172082/"
    handle:    "nm0172082"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
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    handle:    "@jcurbaniak"
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    title: "Discogs"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Urbaniak"
    title: "James Urbaniak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Urbaniak"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump