# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-hunt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:26:48.286Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-hunt"
name: "Richard Hunt"
slug: "richard-hunt"
description: "Richard Hunt was an American actor and puppeteer, best known as a Muppet performer on Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, and other projects for The Jim Henson Company. His roles on The Muppet Show included Scooter, Statler, Janice, Beaker, and Sweetums and characters on Sesame Street included Gladys the Cow, Don Music, Forgetful Jones and the right head of the Two-Headed Monster."
tagline: "American puppeteer (1951-1992)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/itvasFV2Qgnrsx4ejAaUTT7KAYj.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: "1951-08-17"
deathDate: "1992-01-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.6
  momentum:             11.10964041473638
  historical:           17.91462933333334
  currentAttention:     30
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0402611/"
    handle:    "nm0402611"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f0747a4a-4d66-4934-a1d8-e0e40c447412"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hunt"
    title: "Richard Hunt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%87%D9%86%D8%AA"
    title: "ريتشارد هنت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%87%D9%86%D8%AA_(%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85)"
    title: "ريتشارد هنت (مخرج افلام)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hunt"
    title: "Richard Hunt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hunt"
    title: "Richard Hunt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hunt_(Puppenspieler)"
    title: "Richard Hunt (Puppenspieler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hunt_(puppeteer)"
    title: "Richard Hunt (puppeteer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hunt_(titiritero)"
    title: "Richard Hunt (titiritero)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hunt"
    title: "Richard Hunt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA"
    title: "ریچارد هانت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hunt_(acteur)"
    title: "Richard Hunt (acteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A6'%D7%A8%D7%93_%D7%94%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%98"
    title: "ריצ'רד האנט"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88_(%E4%BA%BA%E5%BD%A2%E4%BD%BF%E3%81%84)"
    title: "リチャード・ハント (人形使い)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A6%AC%EC%B2%98%EB%93%9C_%ED%97%8C%ED%8A%B8"
    title: "리처드 헌트"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hunt"
    title: "Richard Hunt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hunt"
    title: "Richard Hunt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Хант, Ричард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hunt_(puppeteer)"
    title: "Richard Hunt (puppeteer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hunt_(oyuncu)"
    title: "Richard Hunt (oyuncu)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DA%86%D8%B1%DA%88_%DB%81%D9%86%D9%B9_(%D9%BE%D8%AA%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B2)"
    title: "رچرڈ ہنٹ (پتلی باز)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q561809"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/68456"
    title: "Richard Hunt"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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