# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-sanderson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:24:16.391Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-sanderson"
name: "William Sanderson"
slug: "william-sanderson"
description: "William Sanderson is an American retired actor. He played J. F. Sebastian in the feature film Blade Runner (1982), and had regular roles on several television series, playing Larry on Newhart (1982–1990), E. B. Farnum on Deadwood, and \tSheriff Bud Dearborne on True Blood."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Sandersen_2019.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1944-01-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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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