# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ted-bessell
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:45:48.267Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ted-bessell"
name: "Ted Bessell"
slug: "ted-bessell"
description: "Howard Weston \"Ted\" Bessell Jr. was an American television actor and director widely known for his role as Donald Hollinger, the boyfriend and eventual fiancé of Marlo Thomas's character in the TV series That Girl (1966–1971)."
tagline: "Actor, television director (1935-1996)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ted_Bessell.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: "1935-03-20"
deathDate: "1996-10-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.39
  momentum:             2.332116788321168
  historical:           9.486576
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0078783/"
    handle:    "nm0078783"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%B9%DB%8C%DA%88_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%84"
    title: "ٹیڈ بیسل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Bessell"
    title: "Ted Bessell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "تيد بيسيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Bessell"
    title: "Ted Bessell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%DB%8E%D8%AF_%D8%A8%DB%8E%D8%B3%DB%8E%D9%84"
    title: "تێد بێسێل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Bessell"
    title: "Ted Bessell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Bessell"
    title: "Ted Bessell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Bessell"
    title: "Ted Bessell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Bessell"
    title: "Ted Bessell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%85%8C%EB%93%9C_%EB%B2%A0%EC%85%80"
    title: "테드 베셀"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3517017"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/157198"
    title: "Ted Bessell"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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