# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/simon-jones-q325070
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:59:11.105Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/simon-jones-q325070"
name: "Simon Jones"
slug: "simon-jones-q325070"
description: "Simon Jones is an English actor. He is best known for originating the role of Arthur Dent, protagonist of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He also played the role of Donald Shellhammer in Miracle on 34th Street (1994), appeared in Brideshead Revisited (1981) as Lord Brideshead, and as King George V in the film Downton Abbey (2019), and as Bannister in The Gilded Age."
tagline: "British actor (born 1950)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Simon_Jones_at_September_2025_Downton_Abbey_The_Grand_Finale_Premiere_in_New_York.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1950-07-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.51
  momentum:             0.276332316526108
  historical:           12.006172
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/SimonJonesActor"
    handle:    "SimonJonesActor"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0429254/"
    handle:    "nm0429254"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.simonjonesinfo.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/0f06b582-6043-4e9e-8475-4ea5997f1fe8"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Jones"
    title: "Simon Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A5%BF%E8%92%99%C2%B7%E7%90%BC%E6%96%AF"
    title: "西蒙·琼斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "سيمون جونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2_(%D9%85%D9%85%D8%AB%D9%84)"
    title: "سيمون جونز (ممثل)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2_(%D8%A7%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86%DA%86%D9%88)"
    title: "سیمون جونز (اویونچو)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Jones_(Schauspieler)"
    title: "Simon Jones (Schauspieler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Jones_(actor)"
    title: "Simon Jones (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2_(%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C%DA%AF%D8%B1)"
    title: "سیمون جونز (بازیگر)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Jones_(acteur)"
    title: "Simon Jones (acteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Jones_(attore)"
    title: "Simon Jones (attore)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Jones_(aktor)"
    title: "Simon Jones (aktor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Jones"
    title: "Simon Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q325070"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1540475"
    title: "Simon Jones"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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