# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-whitaker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:50:21.907Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-whitaker"
name: "David Whitaker"
slug: "david-whitaker"
description: "David Arthur Whitaker was an English television writer and novelist who worked on the early years of the science-fiction TV series Doctor Who. He served as the programme's first story editor, supervising the writing of its first 51 episodes from 1963 to 1964."
tagline: "English television writer and script editor"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/97/David_Whittaker.jpg/330px-David_Whittaker.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1928-04-18"
deathDate: "1980-02-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.81
  momentum:             0.8670520231213873
  historical:           8.560405333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0924256/"
    handle:    "nm0924256"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/1edc898a-dbf4-4c1f-b6eb-fadb91da996e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ديفيد ويتيكر (كاتب سيناريو)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Whitaker_(Drehbuchautor)"
    title: "David Whitaker (Drehbuchautor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Whitaker_(screenwriter)"
    title: "David Whitaker (screenwriter)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Whitaker"
    title: "David Whitaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Whitaker_(sc%C3%A9nariste)"
    title: "David Whitaker (scénariste)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Whitaker"
    title: "David Whitaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Whitaker"
    title: "David Whitaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4"
    title: "Уитакер, Дэвид"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4801454"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/67903"
    title: "David Whitaker"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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