# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-fichtner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:17:09.457Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-fichtner"
name: "William Fichtner"
slug: "william-fichtner"
description: "William Edward Fichtner is an American actor. Raised in the Buffalo, New York area, he started his career with supporting appearances in Virtuosity (1995), Heat and Strange Days. A prolific character actor in film, Fichtner is recognized for memorable performances in Contact (1997), Armageddon (1998), Go (1999), The Perfect Storm (2000), Black Hawk Down (2001), Crash (2004), and The Longest Yard (2005)."
tagline: "American actor (born 1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/WilliamFichtnerApr2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1956-11-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump