# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-j-bell
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:06:22.997Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-j-bell"
name: "William J. Bell"
slug: "william-j-bell"
description: "William Joseph Bell was an American screenwriter and television producer, best known as the creator of the soap operas Another World, The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful."
tagline: "American screenwriter (1927–2005)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ab/Bill_Bell_2003.jpeg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1927-03-06"
deathDate: "2005-04-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.11
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.352496
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0068589/"
    handle:    "nm0068589"
sources:
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    title: "William J. Bell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Bell"
    title: "William J. Bell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Bell_(producer)"
    title: "William J. Bell (producer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Bell"
    title: "William J. Bell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Joseph_Bell"
    title: "William Joseph Bell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Bell"
    title: "William J. Bell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Joseph_Bell"
    title: "William Joseph Bell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Bell"
    title: "William J. Bell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3568752"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1220819"
    title: "William J. Bell"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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