# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franklyn-ajaye
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:03:27.468Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franklyn-ajaye"
name: "Franklyn Ajaye"
slug: "franklyn-ajaye"
description: "Franklyn Ajaye is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. He released a series of comedy albums starting in 1973 and has acted in film and television shows from the 1970s through the present, including as a primary character in the 1976 ensemble comedy Car Wash and a supporting role in Sam Peckinpah's Convoy (1978)."
tagline: "American actor and comedian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Franklin_Ajaye_1975.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1949-05-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.08
  momentum:             3.943693693693694
  historical:           14.28954266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0014977/"
    handle:    "nm0014977"
sources:
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    title: "Franklyn Ajaye"
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    title: "Franklyn Ajaye"
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    title: "Franklyn Ajaye"
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    title: "Franklyn Ajaye"
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    title: "Franklyn Ajaye"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump