# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brian-sibley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:40:44.281Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brian-sibley"
name: "Brian Sibley"
slug: "brian-sibley"
description: "Brian David Sibley is an English writer. He is author of over 100 hours of radio drama and has written and presented hundreds of radio documentaries, features and weekly programmes. Among his adaptations is the 1981 version of The Lord of the Rings for radio. A columnist and author, he is widely known as the author of many film \"making of\" books, including those for the Harry Potter series, and The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies."
tagline: "British author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Brian_Sibley.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-07-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.59
  momentum:             0.9205983889528193
  historical:           8.567497333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0796285/"
    handle:    "nm0796285"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.briansibley.com"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "بريان سيبلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Sibley"
    title: "Brian Sibley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Sibley"
    title: "Brian Sibley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%A8%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "برایان سیبلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Sibley"
    title: "Brian Sibley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Sibley"
    title: "Brian Sibley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Sibley"
    title: "Brian Sibley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B8%83%E8%90%8A%E6%81%A9%C2%B7%E5%B8%8C%E4%BC%AF%E7%90%86"
    title: "布萊恩·希伯理"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95127"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/592816"
    title: "Brian Sibley"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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