# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-lawson
# Generated: 2026-09-01T02:21:37.577Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-lawson"
name: "Richard Lawson"
slug: "richard-lawson"
description: "Rickey Lee Lawson is an American actor who has starred in movies and on television. He is perhaps best known for his roles in genre films; he portrayed Ryan in the 1982 film Poltergeist, and Dr. Ben Taylor in the 1983 NBC miniseries V."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RichardLawsonBlackFist.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: "1947-03-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.91
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.582912
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0493311/"
    handle:    "nm0493311"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.richardlawson.net"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ڕیچارد لاوسۆن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Lawson"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lawson_(actor)"
    title: "Richard Lawson (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lawson"
    title: "Richard Lawson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C%DA%AF%D8%B1)"
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    title: "Richard Lawson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lawson"
    title: "Richard Lawson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A6%AC%EC%B2%98%EB%93%9C_%EB%A1%9C%EC%8A%A8"
    title: "리처드 로슨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Richard Lawson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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