# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ballard-berkeley
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:00:53.526Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ballard-berkeley"
name: "Ballard Berkeley"
slug: "ballard-berkeley"
description: "Ballard Blascheck, known professionally as Ballard Berkeley, was an English actor of stage and screen. He is best remembered for playing Major Gowen in the British television sitcom Fawlty Towers."
tagline: "British actor of stage and screen (1904–1988)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f8/Ballard_Berkeley.gif?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1904-08-06"
deathDate: "1988-01-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           10.73331333333334
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    title: "Ballard Berkeley"
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    title: "Ballard Berkeley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballard_Berkeley"
    title: "Ballard Berkeley"
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    title: "Ballard Berkeley"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballard_Berkeley"
    title: "Ballard Berkeley"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump