# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-kirchner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:31:27.268Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-kirchner"
name: "Michael Kirchner"
slug: "michael-kirchner"
description: "Michael James Penzel was an American professional wrestler and United States Army paratrooper. He was best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation under the ring name Corporal Kirchner in the mid-1980s, as well as his appearances in Japan for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, W*ING, International Wrestling Association Japan, and Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling under the ring name Leatherface."
tagline: "American professional wrestler"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Corporal_Kirchner.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1957-09-07"
deathDate: "2021"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.51
  momentum:             0.1832993890020366
  historical:           5.555550666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1563556/"
    handle:    "nm1563556"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporal_Kirchner"
    title: "Corporal Kirchner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "مايكل كيرتشنير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporal_Kirchner"
    title: "Corporal Kirchner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC"
    title: "マイク・カーシュナー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kirchner"
    title: "Michael Kirchner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3710414"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3613481"
    title: "Michael Kirchner"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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