# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eric-thal
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:55:05.560Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eric-thal"
name: "Eric Thal"
slug: "eric-thal"
description: "Eric Thal is an American film and stage actor, perhaps best known as Ariel in Sidney Lumet's A Stranger Among Us; Sam Nivens in The Puppet Masters; Samson in Samson and Delilah; Meade Howell in The Wedding; and Rick in Six Degrees of Separation."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/mohh0ONnWuGQPRm4VxQ7JpN2WZD.jpg"
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: "1965-08-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.53
  momentum:             8.259109311740888
  historical:           6.853028
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0856908/"
    handle:    "nm0856908"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D8%AA%DA%BE%D9%84"
    title: "ایرک تھل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "اريك ثال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A6%DB%8E%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "ئێریک تال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Thal"
    title: "Eric Thal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Thal"
    title: "Eric Thal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Thal"
    title: "Eric Thal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Thal"
    title: "Eric Thal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1351683"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/53574"
    title: "Eric Thal"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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