# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-de-vaull
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:05:39.777Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-de-vaull"
name: "William De Vaull"
slug: "william-de-vaull"
description: "William De Vaull - also credited as William P. DeVaull - was an American film actor. He appeared in more than thirty films from 1915 to 1927. In 1919 he sued the Shipman-Curwood Company for nonpayment of $400. He portaryed a Black character, Jake, in the D. W. Griffith film The Birth of a Nation."
tagline: "Actor (1870-1945)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_De_Vaull_1921.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: "1870-12-12"
deathDate: "1945-06-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.269258666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0212051/"
    handle:    "nm0212051"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%AF%D9%89_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "وليام دى فول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_De_Vaull"
    title: "William De Vaull"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%AF%D9%8A_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "وليام دي فول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%85_%DA%88%DB%8C_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "ولیم ڈی وال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_De_Vaull"
    title: "William De Vaull"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_De_Vaulle"
    title: "William De Vaulle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3568544"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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