# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-eric-maine
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:27:07.163Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-eric-maine"
name: "Charles Eric Maine"
slug: "charles-eric-maine"
description: "David McIlwain better known by his pen name, Charles Eric Maine, was an English writer best known for several science fiction serials published in the 1950s and 1960s. He also wrote detective thrillers under the pen names Richard Rayner and Robert Wade."
tagline: "English writer (1921-1981)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1921-01-21"
deathDate: "1981-11-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.41
  momentum:             1.2
  historical:           9.6072
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0537716/"
    handle:    "nm0537716"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Eric_Maine"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D8%A5%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "تشارلز إريك مين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "تشارلز اريك مين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Eric_Maine"
    title: "Charles Eric Maine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Eric_Maine"
    title: "Charles Eric Maine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Eric_Maine"
    title: "Charles Eric Maine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Eric_Maine"
    title: "Charles Eric Maine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3"
    title: "チャールズ・エリック・メイン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Eric_Maine"
    title: "Charles Eric Maine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B7_%D0%95%D1%80%D1%96%D0%BA_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD"
    title: "Чарльз Ерік Мейн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5077413"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/578794"
    title: "Charles Eric Maine"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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