# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-blaisdell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:27:45.580Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-blaisdell"
name: "William Blaisdell"
slug: "william-blaisdell"
description: "William Blaisdell was an American actor, comedian, and singer. He was a member of the Peake family of musicians through his the mother, the harpist Julia Peake Blaisdell. He grew up performing in the Peak Family Bell Ringers as a child, and also performed on the stage in his father's theatre troupe as an actor and musician. As a teenager and young adult he performed as a singer and dancer in vaudeville before moving into work on the stage as a comic actor and singer in both light operas and plays. On screen he appeared in silent films released between the years 1917-1929."
tagline: "American actor (1865-1931)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Harvard_Theatre_Collection_-_William_Blaisdell_TCS_1.2603.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: "1865"
deathDate: "1931-01-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.98
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.003276
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0086430/"
    handle:    "nm0086430"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%91%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB"
    title: "Вільям Блейсделл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blaisdell"
    title: "William Blaisdell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "وليام بليسديل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blaisdell"
    title: "William Blaisdell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A8%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%AF%D9%84"
    title: "ویلیام بلیسدل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blaisdell"
    title: "William Blaisdell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blaisdell"
    title: "William Blaisdell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17153005"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/148657"
    title: "William Blaisdell"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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