# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/juano-hernandez
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:18:09.689Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/juano-hernandez"
name: "Juano Hernández"
slug: "juano-hernandez"
description: "Juano G. Hernández was a Puerto Rican stage and film actor who was a pioneer in the African American film industry. He made his silent picture debut in The Life of General Villa, and talking picture debut in an Oscar Micheaux film, The Girl from Chicago, which was directed at black audiences. Hernández also performed in a series of dramatic roles in mainstream Hollywood movies. His participation in the film Intruder in the Dust (1949) earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination for \"New Star of the Year.\" Later in life he returned to Puerto Rico, where he intended to make a film based on the life of Sixto Escobar."
tagline: "Puerto Rican actor (1896-1970)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Juano_hernandez_in_intruder_in_the_dust.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: "1896-07-19"
deathDate: "1970-07-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.55
  momentum:             2.985372340425532
  historical:           11.00364133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0379621/"
    handle:    "nm0379621"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Juano Hernandez"
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    title: "Juano Hernández"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juano_Hernandez"
    title: "Juano Hernandez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juano_Hern%C3%A1ndez"
    title: "Juano Hernández"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88_%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B2"
    title: "خوانو هرناندز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juano_Hern%C3%A1ndez"
    title: "Juano Hernández"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juano_Hern%C3%A1ndez"
    title: "Juano Hernández"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juano_Hern%C3%A1ndez"
    title: "Juano Hernández"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juano_Hern%C3%A1ndez"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juano_Hernandez"
    title: "Juano Hernandez"
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  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88_%DB%81%D8%B1%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%88%D8%B2"
    title: "جوانو ہرنینڈز"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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