# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-hickey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:14:14.823Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-hickey"
name: "William Hickey"
slug: "william-hickey"
description: "William Edward Hickey was an American actor. He is best known for his Academy Award-nominated role as Don Corrado Prizzi in the John Huston film Prizzi's Honor (1985), as well as Uncle Lewis in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) and the voice of Dr. Finkelstein in Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)."
tagline: "American actor (1927–1997)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/15/William_Hickey.jpg"
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: "1928-09-19"
deathDate: "1997-06-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.81
  momentum:             0.5669800235017627
  historical:           20.31412666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0382676"
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    title: "വില്യം ഹികീ"
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    title: "William Hickey"
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    title: "Хикки, Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "William Hickey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Вільям Гіккі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "William Hickey"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump