# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-bosley
# Generated: 2026-09-08T19:38:04.797Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-bosley"
name: "Tom Bosley"
slug: "tom-bosley"
description: "Thomas Edward Bosley was an American actor, television personality and entertainer. Bosley is best known for portraying Howard Cunningham on the ABC sitcom Happy Days (1974–1984) for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series nomination. Bosley also did a variety of voiceover work such as playing the lead character, Harry Boyle, in the animated series Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, and the narrator of the syndicated film history documentary series That's Hollywood. He was also known for his role as Sheriff Amos Tupper in the Angela Lansbury-led CBS mystery series Murder, She Wrote (1984–1988), and as the title character in the NBC/ABC series Father Dowling Mysteries (1989–1991)."
tagline: "American actor (1927–2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tom_Bosley_1960.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: "1927-10-01"
deathDate: "2010-10-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           58.48
  momentum:             3.631921824104235
  historical:           23.26911733333333
  currentAttention:     20.17734346724575
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0098014/"
    handle:    "nm0098014"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump