# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-a-partain
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:46:32.639Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-a-partain"
name: "Paul A. Partain"
slug: "paul-a-partain"
description: "Paul Alan Partain was an American actor, perhaps best known for his role in the original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) as the wheelchair-user Franklin Hardesty."
tagline: "American actor (1946-2005)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/laJJQ2N032xzJKF1qyZXwEFmGZL.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: "1946-05-03"
deathDate: "2005-01-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.833995901998212
  historical:           11.944792
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0663935/"
    handle:    "nm0663935"
sources:
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    title: "پال اے پارٹین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پول اى. پارتاين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_A._Partain"
    title: "Paul A. Partain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_A._Partain"
    title: "Paul A. Partain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_A._Partain"
    title: "Paul A. Partain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_A._Partain"
    title: "Paul A. Partain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_A._Partain"
    title: "Paul A. Partain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BBA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%83%86%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ポール・A・パーテイン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "폴 A. 파테인"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_A._Partain"
    title: "Paul A. Partain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_A._Partain"
    title: "Paul A. Partain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB"
    title: "Партейн, Пол"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/122455"
    title: "Paul A. Partain"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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