# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-cottrell-boyce
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:25:36.681Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-cottrell-boyce"
name: "Frank Cottrell-Boyce"
slug: "frank-cottrell-boyce"
description: "Frank Cottrell-Boyce is a British screenwriter, novelist and occasional actor, known for his children's fiction and for his collaborations with film director Michael Winterbottom. He has achieved fame as the writer for the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony and for sequels to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car, a children's classic by Ian Fleming."
tagline: "Television scriptwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frank_Cottrell_Boyce_on_September_9%2C_2015%2C_in_Berlin.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1959-09-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.95
  momentum:             10
  historical:           13.82858
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0101639/"
    handle:    "nm0101639"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump