# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-hays
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:01:11.984Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-hays"
name: "Bill Hays"
slug: "bill-hays"
description: "Bill Hays was a British television director who is best remembered for the award-winning Orde Wingate and Rock Follies, a BBC adaptation of the Ivan Turgenev play A Month in the Country (1985), The Tale of Beatrix Potter (1982), a biographical drama with Penelope Wilton in the lead, and the television version of the Alex Glasgow/Alan Plater musical play Close the Coalhouse Door (1969), a late entry in The Wednesday Play series now lost."
tagline: "British television director"
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: "1938-03-15"
deathDate: "2006-03-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.77
  momentum:             1.025641025641026
  historical:           2.220736
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  56
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0371601/"
    handle:    "nm0371601"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Hays_(director)"
    title: "Bill Hays (director)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4909361"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1191032"
    title: "Bill Hays"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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