# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-paragon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:35:14.538Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-paragon"
name: "John Paragon"
slug: "john-paragon"
description: "John Dixon Paragon was an American actor, writer and director. He was best known for his work on the television series Pee-wee's Playhouse, where he portrayed Jambi the Genie and voiced Pterri the Pterodactyl. He was also a writer and director on a number of episodes."
tagline: "American actor (1954–2021)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1d/Photo_of_John_Paragon.jpg"
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: "1954-12-09"
deathDate: "2021-04-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.32
  momentum:             1.999286472852781
  historical:           6.95102
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0660893/"
    handle:    "nm0660893"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/cd42dfaa-603a-472b-b427-8d8b7af5bc0d"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جون پاراجون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%86%D9%86_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%DA%AF%DB%86%D9%86"
    title: "جۆن پاراگۆن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paragon"
    title: "John Paragon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paragon"
    title: "John Paragon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paragon"
    title: "John Paragon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paragon"
    title: "John Paragon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3809528"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/44809"
    title: "John Paragon"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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