# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-christopher
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:25:23.044Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-christopher"
name: "William Christopher"
slug: "william-christopher"
description: "William Christopher was an American actor and comedian, best known for playing Private Lester Hummel on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. from 1965 to 1968 and Father Francis John Patrick Mulcahy on the television series M*A*S*H from 1972 to 1983 and its spinoff AfterMASH from 1983 to 1985."
tagline: "American actor (1932-2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Christopher_Good_Times_1975_(cropped).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1932-10-20"
deathDate: "2016-12-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.3827694495467203
  historical:           18.56416133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump