# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-napier-q431356
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:47:31.553Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-napier-q431356"
name: "Charles Napier"
slug: "charles-napier-q431356"
description: "Charles Lewis Napier was an American actor who was known for playing supporting and occasional leading roles in television and films. He was frequently cast as police officers, soldiers, or authority figures, many of them villainous or corrupt. After leaving his Kentucky hometown to serve in the Army, he graduated from college and worked as a sports coach and art teacher before settling on acting as a career. His first prominent role in a film was in Cherry, Harry & Raquel! (1969), which was the first of four films he would do with director Russ Meyer. Napier established himself in character roles and worked steadily for the next 35 years. He made numerous collaborations with director Jonathan Demme, including roles in Something Wild (1986), Married to the Mob (1988), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Philadelphia (1993), Beloved (1998), and The Manchurian Candidate (2004)."
tagline: "American actor (1936–2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/CharlesNapierApr08.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1936-04-12"
deathDate: "2011-10-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.469737657508779
  historical:           22.66622666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump