# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-napolitano
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:47:44.796Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-napolitano"
name: "Joe Napolitano"
slug: "joe-napolitano"
description: "Joseph Ralph Napolitano was an American television director who worked on multiple episodic series. He previously was a film assistant director."
tagline: "American director (1948–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joe_Napolitano_Quantum_Leap.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1948-11-22"
deathDate: "2016-07-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.543809333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0621137/"
    handle:    "nm0621137"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Napolitano"
    title: "Joe Napolitano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88_%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88"
    title: "چو ناپوليتانو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Napolitano"
    title: "Joe Napolitano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Napolitano"
    title: "Joe Napolitano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Napolitano"
    title: "Joe Napolitano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Napolitano"
    title: "Joe Napolitano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Napolitano"
    title: "Joe Napolitano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Napolitano"
    title: "Joe Napolitano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Napolitano"
    title: "Joe Napolitano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1652302"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1213543"
    title: "Joe Napolitano"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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