# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/r-d-reid
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:47:24.631Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/r-d-reid"
name: "R. D. Reid"
slug: "r-d-reid"
description: "R. D. Reid was a Canadian character actor known for his portrayal of Sergeant Purley Stebbins in the A&E TV original series, A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001–2002), and the series pilot, The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2000). He appeared in Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead, and George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead. His other film appearances include Santa Who? (2000), Capote (2005) Half Baked (1998), Lars and the Real Girl (2007) and You Are Here (2010). He also starred in the indie horror film Silent But Deadly."
tagline: "Canadian actor (1944–2017)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/51RqeAqeYr6k6eO61cHPl8TD7ZK.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1944-09-22"
deathDate: "2017-06-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.47
  momentum:             8.600852272727273
  historical:           6.227617333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0717395/"
    handle:    "nm0717395"
sources:
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._D._%EB%A6%AC%EB%93%9C"
    title: "R. D. 리드"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._D._Reid"
    title: "R. D. Reid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%B1._%D8%AF._%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF"
    title: "آر. د. ريد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%B1._%D8%AF._%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF"
    title: "آر. د. ريد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._D._Reid"
    title: "R. D. Reid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._D._Reid"
    title: "R. D. Reid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3414958"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/44183"
    title: "R.D. Reid"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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