# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hal-williams
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:38:44.297Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hal-williams"
name: "Hal Williams"
slug: "hal-williams"
description: "Halroy Candis Williams is an American actor, best known for his recurring roles as Police Officer Smith (\"Smitty\") on Sanford and Son (1972–1976), Harley Foster on The Waltons (1973–1980), and as the patriarch Lester Jenkins, the husband of Marla Gibbs's character, on the NBC sitcom 227 which originally aired from 1985 until 1990. His film credits include Private Benjamin (1980), Guess Who (2005), and Flight (2012)."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hal_Williams%2C_Waltons_40th_Anniversary_2012.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: "1938-12-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.13
  momentum:             3.040207522697795
  historical:           9.361944
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0930724/"
    handle:    "nm0930724"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%81%D8%A7%D9%84_%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2"
    title: "ہال ولیمز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Williams"
    title: "Hal Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%84_%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2"
    title: "هال وليامز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%84_%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2"
    title: "هال وليامز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%BE%D8%A7%D9%84_%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2"
    title: "ھال ویلیامز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Williams"
    title: "Hal Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%84_%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2"
    title: "هال ویلیامز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Williams"
    title: "Hal Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%95%A0_%EC%9C%8C%EB%A6%AC%EC%97%84%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "할 윌리엄스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Williams"
    title: "Hal Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3125902"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/70775"
    title: "Hal Williams"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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