# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/morton-downey-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:39:42.077Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/morton-downey-jr"
name: "Morton Downey Jr."
slug: "morton-downey-jr"
description: "Morton Downey Jr. was an American television talk show host and actor who pioneered the \"trash TV\" format in the late 1980s on his program The Morton Downey Jr. Show."
tagline: "American television talk show host (1932–2001)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Loz_downey.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: "1932-12-09"
deathDate: "2001-03-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.09
  momentum:             12.16286454760642
  historical:           8.945297333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0235968/"
    handle:    "nm0235968"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.mortondowneyjrhome.com"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D9%89_%DA%86%D8%B1."
    title: "مورتون دونى چر."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%86%D8%B1%D8%AA%DB%86%D9%86_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C%DB%86%D8%B1"
    title: "مۆرتۆن داونی جونیۆر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Downey_Jr."
    title: "Morton Downey Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Downey%2C_Jr."
    title: "Morton Downey, Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Downey_Jr."
    title: "Morton Downey Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Downey_Jr."
    title: "Morton Downey Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Downey_Jr."
    title: "Morton Downey Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Downey%2C_Jr."
    title: "Morton Downey, Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2423759"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2064"
    title: "Morton Downey, Jr."
    type:  "DATABASE"

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