# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-donat
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:48:06.603Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-donat"
name: "Peter Donat"
slug: "peter-donat"
description: "Pierre Collingwood Donat, known as Peter Donat, was a Canadian actor. He was a co-founding company member of the American Conservatory Theater, and a frequent player at the Stratford Festival. He was also known to television audiences for his roles as Elmo Tyson on the primetime soap opera Flamingo Road (1981–82) and as William Mulder, the father of Fox Mulder, on The X-Files (1995–99). He won a Theatre World Award for The First Gentleman (1957), and was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Bay Boy (1984)."
tagline: "Canadian-American actor (1928-2018)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fb/Peter_Donat.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: "1928-01-20"
deathDate: "2018-09-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.92
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.530444
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0232194/"
    handle:    "nm0232194"
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    title: "بيتر دونات"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Donat"
    title: "Peter Donat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Donat"
    title: "Peter Donat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Peter Donat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Donat"
    title: "Peter Donat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Peter Donat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Peter Donat"
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    title: "Peter Donat"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump