# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/parley-baer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:30:08.632Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/parley-baer"
name: "Parley Baer"
slug: "parley-baer"
description: "Parley Edward Baer was an American actor in radio and later in television and film. Despite dozens of appearances in television series and theatrical films, he remains best known as the original \"Chester\" in the radio version of Gunsmoke, and as the Mayor of Mayberry in The Andy Griffith Show, as well as Arthur J. Henson in The Addams Family as the Mayor, an insurance executive and as the city controller."
tagline: "American actor (1914-2002)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Parley_Baer_in_The_Public_Defender_(Your_Witness).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: "1914-08-05"
deathDate: "2002-11-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.88
  momentum:             1.570680628272251
  historical:           11.13442933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0046373/"
    handle:    "nm0046373"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%A6%D8%B1"
    title: "پارلی بیئر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parley_Baer"
    title: "Parley Baer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "بارلي بير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B1"
    title: "پارلی بائر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%A8%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1"
    title: "پارلی بایر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parley_Baer"
    title: "Parley Baer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parley_Baer"
    title: "Parley Baer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B1"
    title: "پارلی بائر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parley_Baer"
    title: "Parley Baer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parley_Baer"
    title: "Parley Baer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parley_Baer"
    title: "Parley Baer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parley_Baer"
    title: "Parley Baer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q973490"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/86369"
    title: "Parley Baer"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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