# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-yip
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:52:20.527Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-yip"
name: "David Yip"
slug: "david-yip"
description: "David Nicholas Yip is a British actor and playwright. He gained prominence through his role in the BBC series The Chinese Detective (1981–1982) as the first Chinese lead on British television."
tagline: "English actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_yip_2022_1.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1951-06-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.27
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.913297333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0948118/"
    handle:    "nm0948118"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.davidyip.co.uk/"
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Yip"
    title: "David Yip"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%8A%D8%A8"
    title: "ديفيد يب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%8A%D8%A8"
    title: "ديفيد يب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF_%DB%8C%DB%8C%D9%BE"
    title: "دیوید ییپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Yip"
    title: "David Yip"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Yip"
    title: "David Yip"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Yip"
    title: "David Yip"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF_%DB%8C%DB%8C%D9%BE"
    title: "دیوید ییپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Yip"
    title: "David Yip"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1177291"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/696"
    title: "David Yip"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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