# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-frawley
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:10:12.024Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-frawley"
name: "William Frawley"
slug: "william-frawley"
description: "William Clement Frawley was an American vaudevillian and actor best known for playing landlord Fred Mertz in the sitcom I Love Lucy. Frawley also played \"Bub\" O'Casey during the first five seasons of the sitcom My Three Sons and the political advisor to the Hon. Henry X. Harper in the film Miracle on 34th Street."
tagline: "American actor (1887–1966)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Frawley_1951.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1887-02-26"
deathDate: "1966-03-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.470556012051493
  historical:           18.91678133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0292433"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump