# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hywel-bennett
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:05:06.498Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hywel-bennett"
name: "Hywel Bennett"
slug: "hywel-bennett"
description: "Hywel Thomas Bennett was a Welsh film and television actor. He had a lead role in The Family Way (1966) and played the \"thinking man's layabout\" James Shelley in the television sitcom Shelley (1979–1992)."
tagline: "Welsh actor (1944-2017)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/33/HywelBennett1966.jpg"
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: "1944-04-08"
deathDate: "2017-07-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.51
  momentum:             3.373769338959212
  historical:           10.88103733333333
  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/nm0071799/"
    handle:    "nm0071799"
sources:
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    title: "هيويل بينيت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hywel_Bennett"
    title: "Hywel Bennett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hywel_Bennett"
    title: "Hywel Bennett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hywel_Bennett"
    title: "Hywel Bennett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hywel_Bennett"
    title: "Hywel Bennett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%95%D7%95%D7%9C_%D7%91%D7%A0%D7%98"
    title: "הוול בנט"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hywel_Bennett"
    title: "Hywel Bennett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hywel_Bennett"
    title: "Hywel Bennett"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hywel_Bennett"
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  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/945341e7-4464-45bb-a670-49efdcaadcfa"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5962726"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Hywel Bennett"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump