# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dennis-potter
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:04:37.630Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dennis-potter"
name: "Dennis Potter"
slug: "dennis-potter"
description: "Dennis Christopher George Potter was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist. He is best known for his BBC television serials Pennies from Heaven (1978) and The Singing Detective (1986) as well as the BBC television plays Blue Remembered Hills (1979) and Brimstone and Treacle (1976). His television dramas, often set or partly set in the Forest of Dean of his childhood, mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social, and often used themes and images from popular culture. Potter is widely regarded as one of the most influential and innovative dramatists to have worked in British television."
tagline: "British dramatist and screenwriter (1935–1994)"
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gender: "male"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1935-05-17"
deathDate: "1994-06-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump