# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ron-van-clief
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:24:34.445Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ron-van-clief"
name: "Ron van Clief"
slug: "ron-van-clief"
description: "Ron Van Clief is an American martial artist and an actor in Hollywood and Hong Kong action films. He is best known for starring in 1970s blaxploitation and kung fu films. He is the father of poet Shihan van Clief.\nHe also founded the Chinese Goju System in 1973."
tagline: "American martial artist"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/eaa0ogi0FnfbmdTSyAGMEM29IN1.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: "1943-01-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.73
  momentum:             3.049277684083393
  historical:           5.997053333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0885885/"
    handle:    "nm0885885"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%86_%DA%A9%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%81"
    title: "رون وین کلیف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81"
    title: "رون ڤان كليف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%95%DB%86%D9%86_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86_%DA%A9%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%81"
    title: "ڕۆن ڤان کلیف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_van_Clief"
    title: "Ron van Clief"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A1%A0_%EB%B0%98_%ED%81%B4%EB%A6%AC%ED%94%84"
    title: "론 반 클리프"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_van_Clief"
    title: "Ron van Clief"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7364578"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/82021"
    title: "Ron Van Clief"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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