# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-hawkins-q6831012
# Generated: 2026-08-15T13:06:11.640Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-hawkins-q6831012"
name: "Michael Hawkins"
slug: "michael-hawkins-q6831012"
description: "Thomas Knight Slater, known professionally as Michael Hawkins and credited sometimes as Michael D. Gainsborough, was an American actor. He is known for playing Frank Ryan on the soap opera Ryan's Hope (1975–1976). He was the father of actor Christian Slater."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/3oszYcNu2bqCVCTijiMgP6mFcIC.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: "1935-08-12"
deathDate: "2022"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.6
  momentum:             4.633622947077229
  historical:           5.408758666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0370187/"
    handle:    "nm0370187"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hawkins_(American_actor)"
    title: "Michael Hawkins (American actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "ميخائيل هوكينز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2_(%D9%85%D9%85%D8%AB%D9%84)"
    title: "مايكل هوكينز (ممثل)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%EC%9D%B4%ED%81%B4_%ED%98%B8%ED%82%A8%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "마이클 호킨스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%84_%DB%81%D8%A7%DA%A9%D9%86%D8%B2_(%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "مائیکل ہاکنز (امریکی اداکار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6831012"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/219135"
    title: "Michael Hawkins"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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