# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-blodgett
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:13:02.323Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-blodgett"
name: "Michael Blodgett"
slug: "michael-blodgett"
description: "Michael Blodgett was an American actor, novelist, and screenwriter. Of his many film and television appearances he is best known for his performance as gigolo Lance Rocke in Russ Meyer's 1970 cult classic Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. He retired from acting in the late 1970s and began a writing career."
tagline: "Actor, novelist, screenwriter (1939-2007)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f2/Publicity_Photo_of_Michael_Blodgett.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-09-26"
deathDate: "2007-11-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.78
  momentum:             11.31776218768914
  historical:           8.535941333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0088793/"
    handle:    "nm0088793"
sources:
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    title: "مائیکل بلاجٹ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Blodgett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مايكل بلودجيت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "مايكل بلودجيت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%DA%B5_%D8%A8%D9%84%DB%86%D8%AF%DA%AF%DB%8E%D8%AA"
    title: "مایکڵ بلۆدگێت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Blodgett"
    title: "Michael Blodgett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Blodgett"
    title: "Michael Blodgett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%83%E3%83%88"
    title: "マイケル・ブロジェット"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Blodgett"
    title: "Michael Blodgett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6828698"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/45114"
    title: "Michael Blodgett"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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