# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andrew-cartmel
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:34:20.129Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andrew-cartmel"
name: "Andrew Cartmel"
slug: "andrew-cartmel"
description: "Andrew J. Cartmel is a British script editor, author and journalist. He was the script editor of Doctor Who during the Sylvester McCoy era of the show between 1987 and 1989. He has also worked as a script editor on other television series, as a magazine editor, as a comics writer, as a film studies lecturer, and as a novelist."
tagline: "British author and journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cartmel%2C_Andrew_(2008)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1958"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.59
  momentum:             6.040268456375839
  historical:           5.294782666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0142083/"
    handle:    "nm0142083"
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cartmel"
    title: "Andrew Cartmel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "اندرو كارتميل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cartmel"
    title: "Andrew Cartmel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cartmel"
    title: "Andrew Cartmel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cartmel"
    title: "Andrew Cartmel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4756569"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3134709"
    title: "Andrew Cartmel"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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