# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-hersholt
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:20:21.015Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-hersholt"
name: "Jean Hersholt"
slug: "jean-hersholt"
description: "Jean Pierre Carl Buron, known professionally as Jean Hersholt, was a Danish-American actor. He is most famous for starring on the CBS radio series Dr. Christian from 1937–1954, reprising the role in a film series from 1939-1941. He also co-starred with Shirley Temple in the film Heidi (1937). When asked how to pronounce his name, he told The Literary Digest, \"in English her'sholt; in Danish, hairs'hult.\" From 1924 to 1955, he had 140 motion picture credits: 75 silent film and 65 \"talkies\"; he directed four."
tagline: "Danish-American actor (1886–1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jean_Hersholt_1929.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: "1886-07-12"
deathDate: "1956-06-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.27
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.6232
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0380965/"
    handle:    "nm0380965"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump