# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jerry-haynes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:43:07.932Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jerry-haynes"
name: "Jerry Haynes"
slug: "jerry-haynes"
description: "Jerome Martin \"Jerry\" Haynes was an American actor from Dallas, Texas. He is most well known as Mr. Peppermint, a role he played for 30 years as the host of one of the longest-running local children's shows in television, the Dallas-based Mr. Peppermint (1961–1969), which was retitled Peppermint Place for its second run (1975–1996). He also had a long career in local and regional theater and appeared in more than 50 films. A 1944 graduate of Dallas' Woodrow Wilson High School, he was the father of Butthole Surfers frontman Gibby Haynes."
tagline: "American actor best known for long-running role as children's television host \"Mr. Peppermint\" (1927-2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jerry_haynes_red_river_nm_profile.png?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: "1927-01-31"
deathDate: "2011-09-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.14
  momentum:             6.982685098262989
  historical:           6.874808
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0371479/"
    handle:    "nm0371479"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C_%DB%81%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "جیری ہینس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "جيري هاينس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "جيرى هاينس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8E%D8%B1%DB%8C_%DA%BE%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "جێری ھاینز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Haynes"
    title: "Jerry Haynes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Haynes"
    title: "Jerry Haynes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Haynes"
    title: "Jerry Haynes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3808023"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2850"
    title: "Jerry Haynes"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump