# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-sylvester
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:13:30.532Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-sylvester"
name: "William Sylvester"
slug: "william-sylvester"
description: "William Sylvester was an American actor, chiefly known for his film and television work in the United Kingdom. He was a star of British B-movies and West End theatre in the 1950s and 1960s, but gained widespread recognition for his role as Dr. Heywood Floyd in the landmark science-fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)."
tagline: "American film actor (1922-1995)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9a/2001_Floyd_publicity_still.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: "1922-01-31"
deathDate: "1995-01-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.93
  momentum:             4.629544371902076
  historical:           15.13943866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0843213/"
    handle:    "nm0843213"
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    title: "ولیم سلویسٹر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "William Sylvester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sylvester"
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    title: "William Sylvester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ויליאם סילבסטר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "William Sylvester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ウィリアム・シルベスター"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "윌리엄 실베스터"
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    title: "William Sylvester"
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    title: "William Sylvester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1754108"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/247"
    title: "William Sylvester"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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