# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-cammell
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:12:39.205Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donald-cammell"
name: "Donald Cammell"
slug: "donald-cammell"
description: "Donald Seton Cammell was a Scottish painter and filmmaker. He is best known for his 1970 debut film Performance, which he wrote the screenplay for and co-directed with Nicolas Roeg. He died by suicide after the last film he directed, Wild Side, was taken away from him and recut by the production company. The British Film Institute posthumously referred to him as a \"true visionary\"."
tagline: "British film director (1934-1996)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/xIaAVsujonfsstCsYMXu9KCgbRg.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1934-01-17"
deathDate: "1996-04-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.04
  momentum:             23.75062719518314
  historical:           8.667865333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0131910/"
    handle:    "nm0131910"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "دونالد كاميل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Donald Cammell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Cammell"
    title: "Donald Cammell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%DA%A9%D9%85%D9%84"
    title: "دونالد کمل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Cammell"
    title: "Donald Cammell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Cammell"
    title: "Donald Cammell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Cammell"
    title: "Donald Cammell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%8D%D0%BC%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB%2C_%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B4"
    title: "Кэммелл, Дональд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Donald Cammell"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump