# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cyril-frankel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:52:26.029Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cyril-frankel"
name: "Cyril Frankel"
slug: "cyril-frankel"
description: "Cyril Solomon Israel Frankel was a British film and television director. His career in television began in 1953 and he directed for over 30 TV programmes until 1990. He directed many episodes of popular British TV shows, such as The Avengers, and the pilot episodes of the ITC Entertainment shows Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) and Department S in 1969. In 1970, he directed \"Timelash\", an episode of UFO, which he described as a very interesting script and one of his personal favourites."
tagline: "Film and television director (1921–2017)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/58/Cyril_Frankel.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: "1921-12-28"
deathDate: "2017-06-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.49
  momentum:             1.52
  historical:           6.615552
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0291201/"
    handle:    "nm0291201"
sources:
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Frankel"
    title: "Cyril Frankel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "سيريل فرانكيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Frankel"
    title: "Cyril Frankel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Frankel"
    title: "Cyril Frankel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Frankel"
    title: "Cyril Frankel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Frankel"
    title: "Cyril Frankel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Frankel"
    title: "Cyril Frankel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q594401"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/143635"
    title: "Cyril Frankel"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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