# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brian-glanville
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:01:02.175Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brian-glanville"
name: "Brian Glanville"
slug: "brian-glanville"
description: "Brian Lester Glanville was an English football writer and novelist. He was described by The Times as \"the doyen of football writers—arguably the finest football writer of his—or any other—generation\", and by American journalist Paul Zimmerman as \"the greatest football writer of all time.\""
tagline: "British writer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1931-09-24"
deathDate: "2025-05-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.11
  momentum:             23.77001326846528
  historical:           7.065952
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0321742/"
    handle:    "nm0321742"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brian_Glanville"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%BA%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "برايان غلانفيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "برايان جلانفيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Glanville"
    title: "Brian Glanville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Glanville"
    title: "Brian Glanville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Glanville"
    title: "Brian Glanville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BB%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%2C_%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Глэнвилл, Брайан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3644454"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2291236"
    title: "Brian Glanville"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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