# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ken-howard
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:09:56.145Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ken-howard"
name: "Ken Howard"
slug: "ken-howard"
description: "Kenneth Joseph Howard Jr. was an American actor. He was known for his roles as Thomas Jefferson in 1776 (1972) and as high school basketball coach and former Chicago Bulls player Ken Reeves in the television show The White Shadow (1978–1981). Howard won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play in 1970 for his performance in Child's Play, and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for his work in Grey Gardens (2009)."
tagline: "American actor (1944–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ken_Howard_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1944-03-28"
deathDate: "2016-03-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           57
  momentum:             1.9556556383163
  historical:           21.12722133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 238
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0397432/"
    handle:    "nm0397432"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump