# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jim-varney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:14:48.942Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jim-varney"
name: "Jim Varney"
slug: "jim-varney"
description: "James Albert Varney Jr. was an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his Emmy Award winning comedic role as Ernest P. Worrell, originating in a series of television commercial advertising campaigns, and later growing into a film and television franchise. He played Jed Clampett in the 1993 The Beverly Hillbillies film adaptation, and also covered a song for the film titled \"Hot Rod Lincoln\". He voiced Slinky Dog in the first two films of the Toy Story franchise (1995–1999). He died of lung cancer on February 10, 2000, leaving two posthumous releases, Daddy and Them and Atlantis: The Lost Empire."
tagline: "American actor and comedian (1949–2000)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/Jim_Varney.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1949-06-15"
deathDate: "2000-02-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           63.48
  momentum:             9.164588581255249
  historical:           25.06354533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001815/"
    handle:    "nm0001815"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.jimvarney.org"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump