# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-alland
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:19:53.319Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-alland"
name: "William Alland"
slug: "william-alland"
description: "William Alland was an American actor, film producer and writer, mainly of Western and science-fiction/monster films, including This Island Earth, It Came From Outer Space, Tarantula!, The Deadly Mantis, The Mole People, The Colossus of New York, The Space Children, and the three Creature from the Black Lagoon films. He worked frequently with director Jack Arnold. Alland is also remembered for his acting role as reporter Thompson, who investigates the meaning of \"Rosebud\" in Orson Welles's Citizen Kane (1941)."
tagline: "Actor, producer, writer and director (1916-1997)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Citizen-Kane-Alland.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1916-03-04"
deathDate: "1997-11-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.83
  momentum:             1.443850267379679
  historical:           15.16738933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0020041/"
    handle:    "nm0020041"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "William Alland"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "William Alland"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump