# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brian-desmond-hurst
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:04:59.873Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brian-desmond-hurst"
name: "Brian Desmond Hurst"
slug: "brian-desmond-hurst"
description: "Brian Desmond Hurst was an Irish film director. With over thirty films in his filmography, Hurst was hailed as Northern Ireland's best film director by BBC film critic Mike Catto. He is perhaps best known for the 1951 A Christmas Carol adaptation Scrooge."
tagline: "Belfast-born film director (1895-1986)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Brian_Desmond_Hurst._Allan_Warren.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: "1895-02-12"
deathDate: "1986-09-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.697722567287785
  historical:           10.10734666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0221423/"
    handle:    "nm0221423"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump