# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barry-hines
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:13:56.391Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barry-hines"
name: "Barry Hines"
slug: "barry-hines"
description: "Melvin Barry Hines, FRSL was an English author, playwright and screenwriter. His novels and screenplays explore the political and economic struggles of working-class Northern England, particularly in his native West Riding/South Yorkshire."
tagline: "British writer"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/9ikC0SyWWadre9UPVkeS7ppqU5e.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-06-30"
deathDate: "2016-03-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.93
  momentum:             0.9791742784070151
  historical:           9.30818
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0385632/"
    handle:    "nm0385632"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Barry_Hines"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "باري هاينز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "بارى هاينز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Hines"
    title: "Barry Hines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Hines"
    title: "Barry Hines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Hines"
    title: "Barry Hines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "بری هاینس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Hines"
    title: "Barry Hines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Hines"
    title: "Barry Hines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Hines"
    title: "Barry Hines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4864315"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/217634"
    title: "Barry Hines"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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