# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steve-downes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:29:20.190Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/steve-downes"
name: "Steve Downes"
slug: "steve-downes"
description: "Stephen Arthur Downes is an American disc jockey and voice actor. He is best known for his work as the voice of the Master Chief in the Halo video game series. He worked as a disc jockey at Los Angeles, California Album-oriented Rock radio stations KWST (1978–1981), KEZY-AM (1981–1982) and KLSX (1994), but is best remembered working evening drive at KLOS from 1982 to 1991. He frequently hosted the live call-in talk show, Rockline in the early 1990s. Most recently, he worked as the morning show host for 97.1 WDRV \"The Drive\" in Chicago, Illinois. Downes also hosts the nationally syndicated radio show \"The Classics\". He is married to fellow voice actress Liz Zweifler."
tagline: "American disc jockey and voice actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/SteveDownes.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1950-06-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.43
  momentum:             2.937149968886123
  historical:           6.083021333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1091994/"
    handle:    "nm1091994"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://stevedownesvo.com/"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Downes"
    title: "Steve Downes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Downes"
    title: "Steve Downes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Downes"
    title: "Steve Downes"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Downes"
    title: "Steve Downes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%B2%E8%92%82%E5%A4%AB%C2%B7%E5%A4%9A%E6%81%A9%E6%96%AF"
    title: "史蒂夫·多恩斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5394438"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1542390"
    title: "Steve Downes"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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