# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-boylan-q6222769
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:59:43.297Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-boylan-q6222769"
name: "John Boylan"
slug: "john-boylan-q6222769"
description: "John J. Boylan was an American film, television, and theatrical actor. One of three children born in Canton, Ohio to an Irish-American immigrant family, he began acting in 1932 when he helped found the Players' Guild for a local community theater. His working life was spent in the Ohio and Pennsylvania steel industries, but he continued acting whenever the opportunity arose, often travelling to Greenwich Village in New York City the 1930s and 1940s when regular employment was scarce. It was during these periods spent in New York that he performed on Broadway, becoming acquainted with fellow actors Burgess Meredith and John Ireland while there."
tagline: "American actor (1912-1994)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/o36xFCXNVtIhnxYVVRd7vQVb7hQ.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: "1912-01-31"
deathDate: "1994-11-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.31
  momentum:             19.29561200923787
  historical:           7.288950666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0102163/"
    handle:    "nm0102163"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%84%D9%86_(%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "جان بوئلن (امریکی اداکار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boylan_(Amerikaanse_akteur)"
    title: "John Boylan (Amerikaanse akteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_(%D9%85%D9%85%D8%AB%D9%84)"
    title: "جون بويلان (ممثل)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%86%D9%86_%D8%A8%DB%86%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "جۆن بۆیلان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boylan_(American_actor)"
    title: "John Boylan (American actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "جان بویلان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A1%B4_%EB%B3%B4%EC%9D%B4%EB%9E%9C"
    title: "존 보이랜"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boylan"
    title: "John Boylan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6222769"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/560159"
    title: "John Boylan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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