# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-farnsworth
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:30:58.613Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-farnsworth"
name: "Richard Farnsworth"
slug: "richard-farnsworth"
description: "Richard William Farnsworth was an American actor and stuntman. He was twice nominated for an Academy Award: in 1978 for Best Supporting Actor for Comes a Horseman, and in 2000 for Best Actor in The Straight Story, making him the second-oldest nominee for the award for the latter. Farnsworth was also known for his performances in The Grey Fox (1982), for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama, as well as Anne of Green Gables (1985), Sylvester (1985), and Misery (1990)."
tagline: "American actor (1920–2000)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/77/Straightstory.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1920-09-01"
deathDate: "2000-10-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.47678
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump