# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-dunninger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:04:34.004Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-dunninger"
name: "Joseph Dunninger"
slug: "joseph-dunninger"
description: "Joseph Dunninger, known as \"The Amazing Dunninger\", was one of the most famous and proficient mentalists of all time. He was one of the pioneer performers of magic on radio and television. A debunker of fraudulent mediums, Dunninger claimed to replicate through trickery all spiritualist phenomena."
tagline: "American mentalist and magician (1892–1975)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph_Dunninger.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: "1892-04-28"
deathDate: "1975-03-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.46
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.161449333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0242930/"
    handle:    "nm0242930"
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Dunninger"
    title: "Joseph Dunninger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%BA%D8%B1"
    title: "جوزيف دانينغر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%B1"
    title: "چوزيف دانينجر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Dunninger"
    title: "Joseph Dunninger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Dunninger"
    title: "Joseph Dunninger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%AB_%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%B0"
    title: "जोसेफ डनिंगर"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q687505"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1249933"
    title: "Joseph Dunninger"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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