# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/phil-bruns
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:41:03.858Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/phil-bruns"
name: "Phil Bruns"
slug: "phil-bruns"
description: "Philip Bruns was an American television and movie actor and writer. He portrayed George Shumway, the father of Mary Hartman on the 1970s comedic series Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, and Morty Seinfeld, the father of Jerry Seinfeld, in the 1990 second episode of Seinfeld."
tagline: "American actor, writer (1931-2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Phil_Bruns_in_Silent_Night%2C_Bloody_Night_(1972).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: "1931-05-02"
deathDate: "2012-02-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.5
  momentum:             1.407832545577313
  historical:           9.788310666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0116575/"
    handle:    "nm0116575"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f6203432-5ab5-4e50-ae51-c2c3d18523df"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "فيل برونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "فيل برونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%84_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "فیل برونس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%84_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "فیل بروونس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Bruns"
    title: "Phil Bruns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Bruns"
    title: "Phil Bruns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%84_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "فیل برونس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Bruns"
    title: "Philip Bruns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Bruns"
    title: "Phil Bruns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%84_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "فل برنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q542943"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/31117"
    title: "Philip Bruns"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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