# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/billy-hayes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:28:02.525Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/billy-hayes"
name: "Billy Hayes"
slug: "billy-hayes"
description: "William Hayes is an American writer, actor, film director and convicted drug smuggler. Hayes is best known for his autobiographical book Midnight Express about his experiences in and escape from a Turkish prison, after being convicted of smuggling hashish. Hayes was one of hundreds of U.S citizens in foreign jails serving drug charge sentences, following a drug-smuggling crackdown by foreign governments."
tagline: "American writer, actor and film director"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947-04-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.08
  momentum:             0.5689215963770166
  historical:           17.401632
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0370907/"
    handle:    "nm0370907"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1269883"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B2_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8)"
    title: "بيلي هايز (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B2_(%D9%85%D9%85%D8%AB%D9%84)"
    title: "بيلى هايز (ممثل)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%DA%B5%DB%8C_%DA%BE%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B3"
    title: "بیڵی ھایس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Hayes"
    title: "Billy Hayes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Hayes_(writer)"
    title: "Billy Hayes (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Hayes"
    title: "Billy Hayes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Hayes"
    title: "Billy Hayes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hayes_(%C3%A9crivain)"
    title: "William Hayes (écrivain)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99_%D7%94%D7%99%D7%99%D7%96"
    title: "בילי הייז"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hayes"
    title: "William Hayes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Hayes"
    title: "Billy Hayes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Hayes"
    title: "Billy Hayes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Hayes"
    title: "Billy Hayes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Hayes"
    title: "Billy Hayes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D1%8D%D0%B9%D1%81%2C_%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8"
    title: "Хэйс, Билли"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Hayes_(yazar)"
    title: "Billy Hayes (yazar)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81"
    title: "Вільям Гейс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/02a1d4d8-cd70-4b96-a339-e0f75c66db31"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q863134"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/69009"
    title: "Billy Hayes"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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