# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-puttnam
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:17:43.490Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-puttnam"
name: "David Puttnam"
slug: "david-puttnam"
description: "David Terence Puttnam, Baron Puttnam is a British-Irish film producer, educator, environmentalist and former member of the House of Lords. His productions include Chariots of Fire, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, The Mission, The Killing Fields, Local Hero, Midnight Express and Memphis Belle. In 1982, he received the BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema, and in 2006 he was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts."
tagline: "British film producer (born 1941)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DavidPuttnamBAFTA07b.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1941-02-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.35485337576722
  historical:           13.71315333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0701298"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump