# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dick-wessel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:11:16.035Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dick-wessel"
name: "Dick Wessel"
slug: "dick-wessel"
description: "Richard Michael Wessel was an American film actor who appeared in more than 270 films between 1935 and 1966. He is best remembered for his only leading role, a chilling portrayal of strangler Harry \"Cueball\" Lake in Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946), and for his appearances as comic villains opposite The Three Stooges."
tagline: "Actor (1913-1965)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dick_Wessel.png?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: "1913-04-20"
deathDate: "1965-04-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.07874015748031496
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    title: "Dick Wessel"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump