# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ritch-brinkley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:55:19.768Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ritch-brinkley"
name: "Ritch Brinkley"
slug: "ritch-brinkley"
description: "Ritch Brinkley was an American character actor who appeared in over 50 films and television programs in a career that spanned three decades. He was best known for playing William in Beauty and the Beast and as cameraman Carl Wishnitski in American sitcom television series Murphy Brown, as well as for roles in films such as Cabin Boy (1994) and Breakdown."
tagline: "Actor (1944-2015)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/ca/Ritch_Brinkley_in_Doctor_Mordrid.webp/330px-Ritch_Brinkley_in_Doctor_Mordrid.webp.png"
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: "1944-03-18"
deathDate: "2015-11-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.89
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.84428
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0109620/"
    handle:    "nm0109620"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DA%86_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%86%DA%A9%D9%84%DB%92"
    title: "رچ برنکلے"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "ريتش برينكلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%83%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "ريتش برينكلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%95%DB%8C%DA%86_%D8%A8%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%A9%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "ڕیچ برینکلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritch_Brinkley"
    title: "Ritch Brinkley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritch_Brinkley"
    title: "Ritch Brinkley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A6%AC%EC%B9%98_%EB%B8%8C%EB%A7%81%ED%81%B4%EB%A6%AC"
    title: "리치 브링클리"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16727664"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/22134"
    title: "Ritch Brinkley"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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