# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-ashton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:35:17.236Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-ashton"
name: "John Ashton"
slug: "john-ashton"
description: "John David Ashton was an American actor, known for his roles in the Beverly Hills Cop films, Some Kind of Wonderful, and Midnight Run."
tagline: "American actor (1948–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Ashton_in_2006.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1948-02-22"
deathDate: "2024-09-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           21.52596133333333
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump