# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/c-w-mccall
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:30:45.755Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/c-w-mccall"
name: "C. W. McCall"
slug: "c-w-mccall"
description: "William Dale Fries Jr. was an American commercial artist who won several Clio Awards for his advertising campaigns. He was also a musician remembered for his character C. W. McCall, a truck-driving country singer that he created for a series of bread commercials while working for an Omaha advertising agency as an art director. Fries performed as McCall in a series of outlaw albums and songs in the 1970s, in collaboration with co-worker Chip Davis who also founded Mannheim Steamroller."
tagline: "American singer, activist and politician (1928–2022)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/80/Bill_Fries.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1928-11-15"
deathDate: "2022-04-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.08
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.74548133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0295588/"
    handle:    "nm0295588"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/0iTkPxRldzi5lmS6qZ70JV"
    handle:    "0iTkPxRldzi5lmS6qZ70JV"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/327750"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%89._%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88._%D9%85%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "سى. دبليو. مكال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.W._McCall"
    title: "C.W. McCall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._W._McCall"
    title: "C. W. McCall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._W._McCall"
    title: "C. W. McCall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._W._McCall"
    title: "C. W. McCall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._W._McCall"
    title: "C. W. McCall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.W._McCall"
    title: "C.W. McCall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.W._McCall"
    title: "C.W. McCall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._W._McCall"
    title: "C. W. McCall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._W._McCall"
    title: "C. W. McCall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C_%DA%88%D8%A8%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88_%D9%85%DB%8C%DA%A9_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "سی ڈبلیو میک کال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/07a7e7d3-910c-472e-92b2-a3a69f95a504"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1022574"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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