# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-dixon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:42:00.354Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-dixon"
name: "David Dixon"
slug: "david-dixon"
description: "David Dixon is an English actor and screenwriter. His credits include A Family at War (1970), Escort Girls (1974), The Sweeney, The Legend of Robin Hood (1975), Rock Follies (1976), A Horseman Riding By (1978), Lillie (1978), The Tempest (1980), The Missionary (1982), Cold Warrior (1984), Tutti Frutti (1987), Circles of Deceit: Dark Secret (1995), A Touch of Frost: Fun Times for Swingers  (1996), and Original Sin (1996). However, his most notable role was starring as Ford Prefect in the 1981 BBC TV series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981)."
tagline: "British actor (1947-)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/h8aJVNsMsH2INj0WjaJJOQaMTJ8.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1947-10-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.49
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.079668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0228797/"
    handle:    "nm0228797"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8b34ed80-931e-4e8c-a7f5-7de69da0d5bb"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ديڤيد ديكسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dixon_(Schauspieler)"
    title: "David Dixon (Schauspieler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dixon_(actor)"
    title: "David Dixon (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dixon"
    title: "David Dixon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4_(%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%82%D1%91%D1%80)"
    title: "Диксон, Дэвид (актёр)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%B4_%D0%94%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Девід Діксон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q600006"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/217800"
    title: "David Dixon"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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