# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-smithers
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:18:20.189Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-smithers"
name: "William Smithers"
slug: "william-smithers"
description: "Marion Wilkinson Smithers Jr. better known as William Smithers was an American actor best known for his recurring roles as David Schuster in Peyton Place from 1965 to 1966 and as Jeremy Wendell in the television series Dallas in 1981 and from 1984 to 1989."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/William_Smithers_%22Peyton_Place%22_%281965_ABC_press_photo%29.JPG/330px-William_Smithers_%22Peyton_Place%22_%281965_ABC_press_photo%29.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: "1927-07-10"
deathDate: "2026-05-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.9
  momentum:             25
  historical:           9.311976
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0810461/"
    handle:    "nm0810461"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://mysite.verizon.net/res7gpw5"
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Smithers"
    title: "William Smithers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%B3"
    title: "ویلیام اسمیترس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Smithers"
    title: "William Smithers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Smithers"
    title: "William Smithers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Smithers"
    title: "William Smithers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%B3"
    title: "ویلیام اسمیترس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Smithers"
    title: "William Smithers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Smithers"
    title: "William Smithers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9C%8C%EB%A6%AC%EC%97%84_%EC%8A%A4%EB%AF%B8%EB%8D%94%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "윌리엄 스미더스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%85_%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%AA%DA%BE%D8%B1%D8%B2"
    title: "ولیم سمتھرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q364444"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16030"
    title: "William Smithers"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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