# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/derek-acorah
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:03:23.089Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/derek-acorah"
name: "Derek Acorah"
slug: "derek-acorah"
description: "Derek Francis Johnson, known professionally as Derek Acorah, was a British spiritual medium. He was best known for his television work on Most Haunted, broadcast on Living TV (2002–2010). His career as a medium was punctuated by allegations of fakery and controversy over a number of seances during which he reportedly made contact with high-profile figures."
tagline: "English television personality (1950-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Derek_Acorah_Most_Haunted_lo_res.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: "1950-01-27"
deathDate: "2020-01-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.38
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.183996
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1358878/"
    handle:    "nm1358878"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.derekacorah.com/"
sources:
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    title: "ڈیرک اکورا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%87"
    title: "ديريك اكوراه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Acorah"
    title: "Derek Acorah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D8%A2%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "درک آکورا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Acorah"
    title: "Derek Acorah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Acorah"
    title: "Derek Acorah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Acorah"
    title: "Derek Acorah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Acorah"
    title: "Derek Acorah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Acorah"
    title: "Derek Acorah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Acorah"
    title: "Derek Acorah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4354912"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1216684"
    title: "Derek Acorah"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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