# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-tryon
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:21:00.324Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-tryon"
name: "Tom Tryon"
slug: "tom-tryon"
description: "Thomas Lester Tryon was an American actor and novelist. As an actor, he was billed as Tom Tryon and is best known for playing the title role in the film The Cardinal (1963), featured roles in the war films The Longest Day (1962) and In Harm's Way (1965), acting with John Wayne in both movies, and especially the Walt Disney television character Texas John Slaughter (1958–1961). Tryon later turned to the writing of prose fiction and screenplays, and wrote several successful science fiction, horror and mystery novels as Thomas Tryon."
tagline: "American actor and novelist (1926–1991)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tom_Tryon_in_The_Unholy_Wife_trailer.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: "1926-01-14"
deathDate: "1991-09-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.05
  momentum:             2.815906338312475
  historical:           17.79046133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0874502/"
    handle:    "nm0874502"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.thomastryon.com/bio.htm"
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    title: "Tom Tryon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Tryon"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump