# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-charles-anderson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:32:47.358Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-charles-anderson"
name: "William Charles Anderson"
slug: "william-charles-anderson"
description: "William Charles Anderson was the author of more than twenty novels, historical and true life stories, and author or coauthor of several screenplays for film and television, including the adaptation of his own Bat*21, which was adapted into a film, starring Gene Hackman and Danny Glover, and Hurricane Hunters, was made into the television film Hurricane, an ABC Movie of the Week starring Martin Milner."
tagline: "United States Air Force officer and author (1920–2003)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/43/William_c_anderson.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1920-05-07"
deathDate: "2003-05-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.49
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.141901333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0027587/"
    handle:    "nm0027587"
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Charles_Anderson"
    title: "William Charles Anderson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "وليم تشارلز أندرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "وليم تشارلز اندرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Charles_Anderson"
    title: "William Charles Anderson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Charles_Anderson"
    title: "William Charles Anderson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ویلیام چارلز اندرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2578255"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1334313"
    title: "William C. Anderson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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