# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-erwin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:38:27.618Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-erwin"
name: "Bill Erwin"
slug: "bill-erwin"
description: "William Lindsey Erwin was an American actor with over 250 television and film credits. A veteran character actor, he is widely known for his 1993 Emmy Award–nominated performance on Seinfeld, portraying the embittered, irascible retiree Sid Fields. He also made notable appearances on shows such as I Love Lucy and Star Trek: The Next Generation. In cinema, his most recognized role is that of Arthur Biehl, a kindly bellman at the Grand Hotel, in Somewhere in Time (1980)."
tagline: "American actor (1914–2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bill_Erwin.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: "1914-12-02"
deathDate: "2010-12-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.35
  momentum:             0.3204199855177408
  historical:           14.87190266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0259984"
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    title: "Bill Erwin"
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    title: "Bill Erwin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Erwin"
    title: "Bill Erwin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bill Erwin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bill Erwin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Erwin"
    title: "Bill Erwin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Erwin"
    title: "Bill Erwin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump