# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-devane
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:43:21.986Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-devane"
name: "William Devane"
slug: "william-devane"
description: "William Joseph Devane is an American actor. He is known for his role as Greg Sumner on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing (1983–1993) and as James Heller on the Fox serial dramas 24 (2001–2010) and 24: Live Another Day (2014). He is also known for his work in films such as Family Plot (1976), Marathon Man (1976), Rolling Thunder (1977), Payback (1999), and Space Cowboys (2000)."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Devane_1974.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: "1939-09-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.84405733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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