# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leslie-carlson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:35:16.825Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leslie-carlson"
name: "Leslie Carlson"
slug: "leslie-carlson"
description: "Leslie Merle Carlson was an American actor, who spent most of his professional life in Canada. He is known to film audiences for his work with directors David Cronenberg and Bob Clark, and was also a prolific stage actor. He was nominated for the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Cronenberg's Videodrome (1983), and won a Dora Award for his performance in the Athol Fugard play Valley Song (1996)."
tagline: "American actor (1933-2014)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/9WEm25ndfB1pzJspHsigUn1y0iX.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: "1933-02-24"
deathDate: "2014-05-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.18
  momentum:             3.543307086614172
  historical:           10.75608533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0137967/"
    handle:    "nm0137967"
sources:
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    title: "لیس کارلسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Carlson"
    title: "Leslie Carlson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ليزلي كارلسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ليزلى كارلسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "لسلی کارلسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8E%D8%B3%D9%84%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B3%DB%86%D9%86"
    title: "لێسلی کارلسۆن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Carlson"
    title: "Leslie Carlson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Carlson"
    title: "Les Carlson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "لسلی کارلسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Carlson"
    title: "Leslie Carlson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3"
    title: "レスリー・カールソン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Carlson"
    title: "Leslie Carlson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6530692"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12716"
    title: "Leslie Carlson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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