# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-allen-young
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:50:18.415Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-allen-young"
name: "William Allen Young"
slug: "william-allen-young"
description: "William Allen Young is an American actor and director who has starred in over 100 television, stage, and film projects, including two Academy Award-nominated films, A Soldier's Story and District 9. He is known for his roles as Frank Mitchell on the UPN sitcom Moesha, Dr. Rollie Guthrie on the CBS medical drama Code Black, and as Judge Joseph Ratner on CBS's CSI Miami. His other television credits include ABC's The Day After, General Hospital, CBS's Madam Secretary, JAG, Atlanta Child Murders, and The Women of Brewster Place, among other shows. He is also credited with helping to diversify the ranks of writers, actors, directors and producers in Hollywood through the landmark 2000 TV Network Agreement, which he helped broker while serving as a former co-chair of the African-American Steering Committee of the Directors Guild of America."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/3QMYa0lOFs76wXmPuvdmTyz0KUA.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1954-01-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.779496133699177
  historical:           8.361069333333333
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  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0950165/"
    handle:    "nm0950165"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump