# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chris-petit
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:00:05.322Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chris-petit"
name: "Chris Petit"
slug: "chris-petit"
description: "Chris Petit is an English novelist and filmmaker. During the 1970s he was Film Editor for Time Out and wrote in Melody Maker. His first film was the cult British road movie Radio On, while his 1982 film An Unsuitable Job for a Woman was entered into the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival. His films often have a strong element of psychogeography, and he has worked frequently with the writer Iain Sinclair. He has also written a number of novels, including Robinson (1993)."
tagline: "British writer"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/jWIZPCUCjPWDlfQVkv4F0NLKO0G.jpg"
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: "1949-06-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.97
  momentum:             0.3838383838383839
  historical:           5.951837333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0677551/"
    handle:    "nm0677551"
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Petit"
    title: "Chris Petit"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A"
    title: "كريس بيتي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%89"
    title: "كريس بيتى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Petit"
    title: "Chris Petit"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Petit"
    title: "Chris Petit"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Petit"
    title: "Chris Petit"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2964835"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1078794"
    title: "Chris Petit"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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