# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-kapelos
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:57:51.392Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-kapelos"
name: "John Kapelos"
slug: "john-kapelos"
description: "John Kapelos is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his portrayals of janitor Carl Reed in The Breakfast Club and Detective Donald Schanke in Forever Knight."
tagline: "Born 1956; Canadian actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Kapelos_2014-11-24.png?width=1200"
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: "1956-03-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.16
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.20639866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0438127/"
    handle:    "nm0438127"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://johnkapelos.com/"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "John Kapelos"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جون كابيلوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Kapelos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kapelos"
    title: "John Kapelos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kapelos"
    title: "John Kapelos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Kapelos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kapelos"
    title: "John Kapelos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "존 카펠로스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kapelos"
    title: "John Kapelos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kapelos"
    title: "John Kapelos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kapelos"
    title: "John Kapelos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Kapelos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جان کیپیلوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55554"
    title: "John Kapelos"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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