# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chuck-smith-q712231
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:18:27.034Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chuck-smith-q712231"
name: "Chuck Smith"
slug: "chuck-smith-q712231"
description: "Charles Ward Smith was an American pastor who founded the Calvary Chapel movement. Beginning with the 25-person Costa Mesa congregation in 1965, Smith's influence now extends to \"more than 1,000 churches nationwide and hundreds more overseas\", some of which are among the largest churches in the United States. He has been called \"one of the most influential figures in modern American Christianity.\" The founding of Calvary Chapel is depicted in the 2023 film Jesus Revolution, with Smith being portrayed by Kelsey Grammer."
tagline: "American pastor (1927-2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pastor_Chuck_Smith_(142342758).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "TV Personality"
  slug: "tv-personality"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1927-06-25"
deathDate: "2013-10-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.49
  momentum:             2.904667244706446
  historical:           7.949410666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Smith"
    title: "Chuck Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%83_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB_(%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%88%D8%AA)"
    title: "تشاك سميث (عالم لاهوت)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Smith_(Prediger)"
    title: "Chuck Smith (Prediger)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Smith_(pastor)"
    title: "Chuck Smith (pastor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Smith"
    title: "Chuck Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Smith"
    title: "Chuck Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Smith"
    title: "Chuck Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%2C_%D0%A7%D0%B0%D0%BA"
    title: "Смит, Чак"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q712231"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1877379"
    title: "Chuck Smith"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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