# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-france
# Generated: 2026-08-16T04:40:20.380Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-france"
name: "Richard France"
slug: "richard-france"
description: "Richard France is an American playwright, author, actor, and film and drama critic. He is a recognized authority on the stage work of American filmmaker Orson Welles. His publication, The Theatre of Orson Welles, which received a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Award in 1979, has been called \"a landmark study\" and has been translated into Japanese. His 1990 companion volume, Orson Welles on Shakespeare has been praised by Welles critics and biographers."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/jhlVqjHdfCC4i8i27Ezs9ImQhON.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: "1938-05-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.29
  momentum:             0.2456140350877193
  historical:           5.954357333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0289839/"
    handle:    "nm0289839"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_France_(writer)"
    title: "Richard France (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_France_(skrywer)"
    title: "Richard France (skrywer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3_(%D9%85%D9%85%D8%AB%D9%84)"
    title: "ريتشارد فرانس (ممثل)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "ريتشارد فرانس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%95%DB%8C%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "ڕیچارد فرانس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_France"
    title: "Richard France"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2149490"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15075"
    title: "Richard France"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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