# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-williams-q927415
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:34:00.295Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-williams-q927415"
name: "Paul Williams"
slug: "paul-williams-q927415"
description: "Paul Hamilton Williams Jr. is an American songwriter and actor. He is known for writing and co-writing popular songs performed by a number of acts in the 1970s, including Three Dog Night's \"An Old Fashioned Love Song\" and \"Out in the Country\", Helen Reddy's \"You and Me Against the World\", Biff Rose's \"Fill Your Heart\", and the Carpenters' \"We've Only Just Begun\" and \"Rainy Days and Mondays\". He also wrote \"Cried Like a Baby\" for teen idol Bobby Sherman."
tagline: "American composer, singer, songwriter and actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Williams_1974.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: "1940-09-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           56.12
  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.15411466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/IMPaulWilliams"
    handle:    "IMPaulWilliams"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0931437/"
    handle:    "nm0931437"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
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    handle:    "3f626JSVauIhTQgatsFcs4"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.paulwilliamsofficial.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بول وليامز (مغنى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Williams (cantautor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پال ویلیامز (سرودنویس)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Пол Уилямс (музикант)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Williams (songwriter)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Williams (compositor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پال ویلیامز (ترانه‌سرا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Williams (compositore)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ポール・ウィリアムズ (シンガーソングライター)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8F%B4_%EC%9C%8C%EB%A6%AC%EC%97%84%EC%8A%A4_(%EC%86%A1%EB%9D%BC%EC%9D%B4%ED%84%B0)"
    title: "폴 윌리엄스 (송라이터)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Williams_(l%C3%A5tskriver)"
    title: "Paul Williams (låtskriver)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Williams_(muzyk)"
    title: "Paul Williams (muzyk)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Williams_(songwriter)"
    title: "Paul Williams (songwriter)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%84_%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_(%DA%AF%DB%8C%D8%AA_%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "پال ولیمز (گیت نگار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/35040"
    title: "Paul Williams"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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