# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-desantis
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:20:39.640Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-desantis"
name: "John DeSantis"
slug: "john-desantis"
description: "John DeSantis, sometimes credited as John De Santis or John Desantis, is a Canadian character actor, best known as Lurch on the Fox Family show The New Addams Family. His other work includes a principal role in Disney's Touchstone Pictures film The 13th Warrior, in which he played a Viking warrior named Ragnar the Dour. He has also appeared in television series Police Academy and Supernatural."
tagline: "Canadian actor"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/sMsA0ox2wXkW2Y4uZvYpbpyaGsu.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "2000"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.25
  momentum:             0.1025845989874767
  historical:           9.672988
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  185
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220883/"
    handle:    "nm0220883"
sources:
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    title: "존 드샌티스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جون ديسانتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "جون ديسانتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AF%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AA%DB%8C%D8%B3"
    title: "جان دی‌سنتیس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_DeSantis"
    title: "John DeSantis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_DeSantis"
    title: "John DeSantis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AF%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AA%DB%8C%D8%B3"
    title: "جان دی‌سنتیس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_DeSantis"
    title: "John DeSantis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_DeSantis"
    title: "John DeSantis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_DeSantis"
    title: "John DeSantis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q505634"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/43299"
    title: "John DeSantis"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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