# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-langley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:18:05.232Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-langley"
name: "John Langley"
slug: "john-langley"
description: "John Russell Langley was an American television and film director, writer, and producer who was best known as the creator and executive producer of the television show Cops, which premiered on Fox in March 1989."
tagline: "American television and film director, writer and producer (1943–2021)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1943-06-01"
deathDate: "2021-06-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.25
  momentum:             0.0819672131147541
  historical:           6.187801333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0486524/"
    handle:    "nm0486524"
sources:
  - url: "https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Langley"
    title: "John Langley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "جون لانجلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Langley_(Filmproduzent)"
    title: "John Langley (Filmproduzent)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Langley"
    title: "John Langley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Russell_Langley"
    title: "John Russell Langley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Langley"
    title: "John Langley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1700788"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1234490"
    title: "John Langley"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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