# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/derek-jarman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:12:11.756Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/derek-jarman"
name: "Derek Jarman"
slug: "derek-jarman"
description: "Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman was an English artist, film maker, stage designer, writer, gardener, and gay rights activist, regarded as one of the most influential figures associated with the new queer cinema. Trained originally as a painter, he moved into stage and production design in the late 1960s, including work on Ken Russell's controversial historical 1971 film The Devils, before turning to filmmaking as a director."
tagline: "British film director and artist (1942-1994)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Derek_Jarman_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
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  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1942-01-31"
deathDate: "1994-02-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump