# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-l-williams-q5236263
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:14:49.745Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-l-williams-q5236263"
name: "David L. Williams"
slug: "david-l-williams-q5236263"
description: "David L. Williams is a British film director, writer, and producer living in London. An active film campaigner in Rwanda (Genocide) and Liberia (Deforestation), his commercial work with the UK production house Shooting Pictures has led to collaborations with comedians including Dom Joly, Russell Brand, and Alistair McGowan. His debut cinema feature, the Arctic comedy Beyond the Pole, was his first attempt to fuse comedy with his campaigning work and was supported by Friends of the Earth. In November 2010 Williams collaborated with members of The Fast Show team to campaign for the Sustainable Livestock Bill, legislation designed to protect the Amazonian rainforest and support more local, planet friendly farming."
tagline: "Film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Beyond_the_Pole_Director_David_L_Williams_and_Helen_Baxendale.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           49.19
  momentum:             17.69139162980606
  historical:           3.000946666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  73
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0930383/"
    handle:    "nm0930383"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Williams_(film_director)"
    title: "David L. Williams (film director)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%88%DB%8C%D9%88%DA%88_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84_%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_(%D9%81%D9%84%D9%85%DB%8C_%DB%81%D8%AF%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AA_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "ڈیوڈ ایل ولیمز (فلمی ہدایت کار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5236263"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/157705"
    title: "David L. Williams"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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