# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-forsyth
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:24:59.702Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-forsyth"
name: "Bill Forsyth"
slug: "bill-forsyth"
description: "William David Forsyth is a Scottish film director and screenwriter known for his films Gregory's Girl (1981), Local Hero (1983) and Comfort and Joy (1984) as well as his adaptation of the Marilynne Robinson novel Housekeeping (1987)."
tagline: "British film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bill_Forsyth_2009_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1946-07-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.732834993726204
  historical:           16.82247466666666
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0287025"
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    title: "Bill Forsyth"
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    title: "Bill Forsyth"
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    title: "Bill Forsyth"
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    title: "Bill Forsyth"
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    title: "Bill Forsyth"
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    title: "Bill Forsyth"
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    title: "Bill Forsyth"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump