# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-lurie
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:16:34.842Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-lurie"
name: "John Lurie"
slug: "john-lurie"
description: "John Lurie is an American musician, painter, actor, director, and producer. He co-founded the Lounge Lizards jazz ensemble; has acted in 19 films, including Stranger than Paradise and Down by Law; has composed and performed music for 20 television and film works; and he produced, directed, and starred in the Fishing with John television series. In 1996 his soundtrack for Get Shorty was nominated for a Grammy Award, and his album The Legendary Marvin Pontiac: Greatest Hits has been praised by critics and fellow musicians."
tagline: "American musician, painter and actor (born 1952)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JohnLurie_RayHenders.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1952-12-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.47
  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.70784133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/lurie_john"
    handle:    "lurie_john"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0527099/"
    handle:    "nm0527099"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.johnlurieart.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "جون لوري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Lurie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جۆن لوری"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Lurie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Lurie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Lurie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lurie"
    title: "John Lurie"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Lurie"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lurie"
    title: "John Lurie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lurie"
    title: "John Lurie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lurie"
    title: "John Lurie"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lurie"
    title: "John Lurie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Лури, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Lurie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%9B%D1%83%D1%80%D1%96"
    title: "Джон Лурі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "约翰·卢瑞尔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6394"
    title: "John Lurie"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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