# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jon-cassar
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:54:05.603Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jon-cassar"
name: "Jon Cassar"
slug: "jon-cassar"
description: "John Francis \"Jon\" Cassar is a Maltese-Canadian television director and producer, known for his work on the first seven seasons of 24. In 2006, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for his work on the episode \"Day 5: 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.\". In 2011, he produced and directed all episodes of the Canadian-American miniseries The Kennedys, for which he won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Television Film and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries or Movie."
tagline: "Maltese-Canadian director and producer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jon_Cassar_SDCC_2014_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1958-04-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.50518666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0143984/"
    handle:    "nm0143984"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/975efe33-f15b-4e92-8480-3d1c7a38f302"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "چون كاسار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Cassar"
    title: "Jon Cassar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Cassar"
    title: "Jon Cassar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Cassar"
    title: "Jon Cassar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%DA%A9%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "جان کسار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Cassar"
    title: "Jon Cassar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ジョン・カサー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Cassar"
    title: "Jon Cassar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Cassar"
    title: "Jon Cassar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Cassar"
    title: "Jon Cassar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Кассар, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q716214"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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