# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fred-grandy
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:11:43.191Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fred-grandy"
name: "Fred Grandy"
slug: "fred-grandy"
description: "Fredrick Lawrence Grandy is an American actor who played Burl \"Gopher\" Smith on the TV series The Love Boat and who later became a member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Iowa. Grandy was most recently the host of The Grandy Group, a morning drive time radio talk show on 630 WMAL in Washington, D.C."
tagline: "American politician (b. 1948)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fred_Grandy.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: "1948-06-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.96
  momentum:             0.4767137181979546
  historical:           12.04622
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0334948/"
    handle:    "nm0334948"
sources:
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    title: "Fred Grandy"
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    title: "فرد قراندی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فرێد گراندی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Fred Grandy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Grandy"
    title: "Fred Grandy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Grandy"
    title: "Fred Grandy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Grandy"
    title: "Fred Grandy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Grandy"
    title: "Fred Grandy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "פרד גרנדי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Fred Grandy"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q653258"
    title: "Wikidata"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/100561"
    title: "Fred Grandy"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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