# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ray-buktenica
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:53:32.034Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ray-buktenica"
name: "Ray Buktenica"
slug: "ray-buktenica"
description: "Ray Buktenica is a retired American film and television character actor. He has played numerous roles, primarily on television since 1972. He is best known for playing the character Benny Goodwin, the boyfriend and later fiancé of Brenda Morgenstern on the 1970s sitcom Rhoda, Dr. Solomon on House Calls and Jerry Berkson, Libby's boss on Life Goes On. He additionally had a guest role as the voice of Hugo Strange in the Batman: The Animated Series episode \"The Strange Secret of Bruce Wayne\". In 1996, he guest-starred on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman as Leo Nunk, a newspaper reporter. In 1997, he guest-starred on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, in the episode \"By Inferno's Light\", as Deyos, the Vorta in command of the Dominion's Internment Camp 371."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/A5pPFbVcZOQEu6zYKgFPxfKHG7N.jpg"
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: "1943-08-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.58
  momentum:             5.039854390259211
  historical:           6.134105333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0119805/"
    handle:    "nm0119805"
sources:
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A0%88%EC%9D%B4_%EB%B2%85%ED%85%8C%EB%8B%88%EC%B9%B4"
    title: "레이 벅테니카"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Buktenica"
    title: "Ray Buktenica"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "راي بيكتيناسا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%89_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7"
    title: "راى بيكتيناسا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%95%DB%95%DB%8C_%D8%A8%D9%88%DA%A9%D8%AA%DB%8E%D9%86%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7"
    title: "ڕەی بوکتێنیکا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Buktenica"
    title: "Ray Buktenica"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7297265"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/160970"
    title: "Ray Buktenica"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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