# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-ritter
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:13:34.286Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-ritter"
name: "John Ritter"
slug: "john-ritter"
description: "Johnathan Southworth Ritter was an American actor. He was a son of the singing cowboy star Tex Ritter and the father of actors Jason and Tyler Ritter. He played Jack Tripper on the popular ABC sitcom Three's Company (1977–1984), and received a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for the role in 1984. Ritter briefly reprised the role on the spin-off Three's a Crowd, which aired for one season, producing 22 episodes before its cancellation in 1985."
tagline: "American actor (1948–2003)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Ritter_at_the_1988_Emmy_Awards.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1948-09-17"
deathDate: "2003-09-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     65
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump