# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-hillerman
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:40:59.310Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-hillerman"
name: "John Hillerman"
slug: "john-hillerman"
description: "John Benedict Hillerman was an American actor best known for his starring role as Jonathan Quayle Higgins III on the television series Magnum, P.I. that aired from 1980 to 1988. For his role as Higgins, Hillerman earned five Golden Globe nominations, winning in 1981, and four Emmy nominations, winning in 1987. He retired from acting in 1999."
tagline: "American actor (1932–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Hillerman_Betty_White_The_Betty_White_Show_1977_(cropped)_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1932-12-20"
deathDate: "2017-11-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump