# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-hostetter
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:44:03.387Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-hostetter"
name: "John Hostetter"
slug: "john-hostetter"
description: "John Hostetter was an American actor and visual artist. He played John, the stage manager on the fictional FYI newsmagazine, on the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown starring Candice Bergen; he appeared in 65 of the series's 247 episodes from 1988 to 1998."
tagline: "American actor (1946-2016)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/44/John_hostetter.webp/330px-John_hostetter.webp.png"
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: "1946-10-06"
deathDate: "2016-09-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.43
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.977289333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0396183/"
    handle:    "nm0396183"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.johnhostetter.com/"
sources:
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    title: "جان ہوسٹیٹر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جون هوستيتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "جون هوستيتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%86%D9%86_%DA%BE%DB%86%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%8E%D8%AA%DB%8E%D8%B1"
    title: "جۆن ھۆستێتێر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hostetter"
    title: "John Hostetter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hostetter"
    title: "John Hostetter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27064186"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/79052"
    title: "John Hostetter"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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