# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zachary-knighton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:43:30.300Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zachary-knighton"
name: "Zachary Knighton"
slug: "zachary-knighton"
description: "Zachary Andrew Knighton is an American actor, best known for starring as Dave Rose on the ABC comedy series Happy Endings from 2011 to 2013 and as Orville \"Rick\" Wright in the rebooted version of Magnum P.I. from 2018 to 2024. Other notable roles on television include starring roles on ABC's science fiction series FlashForward and in the FOX sitcoms Life on a Stick and Weird Loners."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Zachary_Knighton_2008_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1978-10-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.6103286384976524
  historical:           18.82856933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0461149"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump