# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ian-charleson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:47:18.488Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ian-charleson"
name: "Ian Charleson"
slug: "ian-charleson"
description: "Ian Charleson was a Scottish stage and screen actor. He is best known internationally for his starring role as Olympic athlete and missionary Eric Liddell in the Oscar-winning 1981 film Chariots of Fire. He is also well known for his portrayal of Rev. Charlie Andrews in the 1982 Oscar-winning film Gandhi."
tagline: "Scottish actor (1949-1990)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f3/Ian_Charleson_carried_in_Chariots_of_Fire.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1949-08-11"
deathDate: "1990-01-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.608695652173913
  historical:           19.21134133333334
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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