# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-bardon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:16:28.128Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-bardon"
name: "John Bardon"
slug: "john-bardon"
description: "John Bardon was an English stage and screen actor. He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical in 1988 for Kiss Me, Kate, sharing the award with co-star Emil Wolk. He was best known for playing the patriarch of the Branning family, Jim Branning, in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, for 15 years from 1996 to 2011."
tagline: "English actor (1939-2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Bardon.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1939-08-25"
deathDate: "2014-09-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.16
  momentum:             9.510763209393344
  historical:           8.228265333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0054315/"
    handle:    "nm0054315"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "جون باردون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Bardon"
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    title: "جان باردون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bardon"
    title: "John Bardon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bardon"
    title: "John Bardon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bardon"
    title: "John Bardon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bardon"
    title: "John Bardon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%8F%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Џон Бардон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14956939"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "John Bardon"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump