# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ken-spears
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:38:15.444Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ken-spears"
name: "Ken Spears"
slug: "ken-spears"
description: "Charles Kenneth Spears was an American animator, writer, television producer and sound editor. He was best known as a co-creator of the Scooby-Doo franchise, together with Joe Ruby. In 1977, they co-founded the television animation production company Ruby-Spears Productions. Spears and Ruby created many other shows such as Jabberjaw, Dynomutt, Dog Wonder, and Fangface. Spears also worked on the shows Sectaurs, Mister T and Alvin and the Chipmunks."
tagline: "American writer (1938-2020)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/06/Ken_Spears_animator.jpg/330px-Ken_Spears_animator.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1938-03-12"
deathDate: "2020-11-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.43
  momentum:             12.42343541944074
  historical:           9.999398666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0817366/"
    handle:    "nm0817366"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "كين سبيرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Spears"
    title: "Ken Spears"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Spears"
    title: "Ken Spears"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%B2"
    title: "کن اسپیرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Spears"
    title: "Ken Spears"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Spears"
    title: "Ken Spears"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Spears"
    title: "Ken Spears"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Spears"
    title: "Ken Spears"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%80%D1%81%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%BD"
    title: "Спирс, Кен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Spears"
    title: "Ken Spears"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6388531"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1212625"
    title: "Ken Spears"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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