# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-beasley-q523278
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:34:26.496Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-beasley-q523278"
name: "John Beasley"
slug: "john-beasley-q523278"
description: "John Beasley was an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the films Rudy (1993), The Apostle (1997), The Sum of All Fears (2002), Walking Tall (2004), The Purge: Anarchy (2014), Sinister 2 (2015), and his role as Irv Harper in the TV series Everwood (2002–2006). In 2002, Beasley founded the \"John Beasley Theater & Workshop\" in Omaha, Nebraska, to promote live theater, especially works written by or featuring African Americans."
tagline: "American actor (1943–2023)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/tpZQojv2UfelPHr1eSphcp0iEpJ.jpg"
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: "1943-06-26"
deathDate: "2023-05-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.68
  momentum:             5.404284205762558
  historical:           14.06856133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0064040/"
    handle:    "nm0064040"
sources:
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    title: "جان بیسلی (اداکار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Beasley"
    title: "John Beasley"
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    title: "John Beasley (akteur)"
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    title: "جون بيسلي (ممثل)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جون بيزلى (ممثل)"
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    title: "جۆن بیزلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Beasley_(Schauspieler)"
    title: "John Beasley (Schauspieler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Beasley_(actor)"
    title: "John Beasley (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%84%DB%8C_(%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%B4%D9%87)"
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    title: "John Beasley (acteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Beasley_(sz%C3%ADnm%C5%B1v%C3%A9sz)"
    title: "John Beasley (színművész)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/38571"
    title: "John Beasley"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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