# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-payne-q723415
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:09:19.824Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-payne-q723415"
name: "John Payne"
slug: "john-payne-q723415"
description: "John Howard Payne was an American film actor who is mainly remembered from film noir crime stories and 20th Century Fox musical films, and for his leading roles in Miracle on 34th Street and the NBC Western television series The Restless Gun."
tagline: "American actor (1912–1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Payne_in_uniform_1943.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: "1912-05-23"
deathDate: "1989-12-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.5
  momentum:             0.946546052631579
  historical:           22.81252933333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0668361/"
    handle:    "nm0668361"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "John Payne (akteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86_(%D9%85%D9%85%D8%AB%D9%84)"
    title: "جون باين (ممثل)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جون باين (رجال اعمال)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%BE%DB%8C%D9%86_(%D8%A7%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86%DA%86%D9%88)"
    title: "جان پین (اویونچو)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Payne"
    title: "John Payne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Payne_(Schauspieler)"
    title: "John Payne (Schauspieler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Payne_(actor)"
    title: "John Payne (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Payne_(actor)"
    title: "John Payne (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%BE%DB%8C%D9%86_(%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%B4%D9%87)"
    title: "جان پین (هنرپیشه)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Payne_(n%C3%A4yttelij%C3%A4)"
    title: "John Payne (näyttelijä)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Payne_(acteur)"
    title: "John Payne (acteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Payne_(aisteoir)"
    title: "John Payne (aisteoir)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Payne"
    title: "John Payne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9A%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ジョン・ペイン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A1%B4_%ED%8E%98%EC%9D%B8_(%EB%B0%B0%EC%9A%B0)"
    title: "존 페인 (배우)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Payne_(filmacteur)"
    title: "John Payne (filmacteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Payne_(aktor)"
    title: "John Payne (aktor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Payne_(ator)"
    title: "John Payne (ator)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Payne_(actor)"
    title: "John Payne (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_(%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%82%D1%91%D1%80)"
    title: "Пейн, Джон (актёр)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Payne"
    title: "John Payne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Payne_(sk%C3%A5despelare)"
    title: "John Payne (skådespelare)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%BE%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%92_(%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "جان پینے (اداکار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8A%C2%B7%E6%8A%AB_(%E6%BC%94%E5%93%A1)"
    title: "尊·披 (演員)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8A%C2%B7%E6%8A%AB_(%E6%BC%94%E5%93%A1)"
    title: "尊·披 (演員)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Payne"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q723415"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/70820"
    title: "John Payne"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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