# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-anderson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:18:39.079Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-anderson"
name: "Sam Anderson"
slug: "sam-anderson"
description: "Sam Anderson is an American actor. He is best known for his character roles such as Sam Gorpley on Perfect Strangers, Principal Willis DeWitt on Growing Pains, Holland Manners on Angel, dentist Bernard Nadler on Lost, Doctor Harad in Friends, Edwin Kingston in Matlock, and in film, as the principal in Forrest Gump."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sam_Anderson_cropped.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: "1947-04-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.49
  momentum:             0.286428733803137
  historical:           22.263768
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0027402/"
    handle:    "nm0027402"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump