# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ralph-waite
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:45:16.134Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ralph-waite"
name: "Ralph Waite"
slug: "ralph-waite"
description: "Ralph Waite was an American actor, best known for his lead role as John Walton Sr. on The Waltons (1972–1981), which he occasionally directed. He later had recurring roles as two other heroic fathers; in NCIS as Jackson Gibbs, the father of Leroy Jethro Gibbs, and in Bones, as Seeley Booth's grandfather."
tagline: "American actor (1928–2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ralph_Waite.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1928-06-22"
deathDate: "2014-02-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           58.01
  momentum:             2.138013562026326
  historical:           22.65784
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0906627/"
    handle:    "nm0906627"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump