# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barry-foster
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:11:44.704Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barry-foster"
name: "Barry Foster"
slug: "barry-foster"
description: "John Barry Foster was an English actor who had an extensive career in film, radio, stage and television over almost 50 years. He was best known for portraying the title character in the British crime series Van der Valk and Bob Rusk in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972)."
tagline: "British film and television actor (1927–2002)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Barry_Foster_(1972).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1927-08-21"
deathDate: "2002-02-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.57
  momentum:             1.576346172839409
  historical:           15.57849333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0287687/"
    handle:    "nm0287687"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "باري فوستر (ممثل)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Foster"
    title: "Barry Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Foster_(actor)"
    title: "Barry Foster (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Foster"
    title: "Barry Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "بری فاستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Foster"
    title: "Barry Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%99_%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%A8"
    title: "בארי פוסטר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barry Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Foster"
    title: "Barry Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Foster"
    title: "Barry Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Foster"
    title: "Barry Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Foster"
    title: "Barry Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Foster"
    title: "Barry Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Foster"
    title: "Barry Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Foster"
    title: "Barry Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/40f5a64f-070d-4384-a6bc-43d0a9160d36"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q291002"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8225"
    title: "Barry Foster"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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