# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/compton-bennett
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:51:52.103Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/compton-bennett"
name: "Compton Bennett"
slug: "compton-bennett"
description: "Herbert William Compton Bennett, better known as Compton Bennett, was an English film director, writer and producer. He is perhaps best known for directing the 1945 film The Seventh Veil and the 1950 version of the film King Solomon's Mines, an adaptation of an Allan Quatermain story."
tagline: "British film director (1900-1974)"
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: "1900-01-15"
deathDate: "1974-08-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.29
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.009648
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0071682/"
    handle:    "nm0071682"
sources:
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton_Bennett"
    title: "Compton Bennett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كومبتون بينيت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "كومبتون بينيت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton_Bennett"
    title: "Compton Bennett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton_Bennett"
    title: "Compton Bennett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton_Bennett"
    title: "Compton Bennett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton_Bennett"
    title: "Compton Bennett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q466415"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/142297"
    title: "Compton Bennett"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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