# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-sadler
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:54:27.543Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-sadler"
name: "William Sadler"
slug: "william-sadler"
description: "William Thomas Sadler is an American actor. He began his career in various Broadway productions including Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues (1985). Known as a character actor, his best known film roles include Die Hard 2 (1990), Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), The Green Mile (1999), The Mist (2007), and Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020). He portrayed President Matthew Ellis in various Marvel Cinematic Universe media including Iron Man 3 (2013) and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2015–2016), and he also portrayed Gino Fish in the Jesse Stone television films."
tagline: "American actor (born 1950)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Sadler_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
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: "1950-04-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.88
  momentum:             0.178156647774784
  historical:           25.577484
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "callmebillsadler"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006669/"
    handle:    "nm0006669"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.williamsadler.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump