# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-dearden
# Generated: 2026-08-31T19:34:46.470Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-dearden"
name: "James Dearden"
slug: "james-dearden"
description: "James Dearden is a British screenwriter and film director, the son of actress Melissa Stribling and director Basil Dearden. He directed eight films between 1977 and 2018. His film Pascali's Island was entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival."
tagline: "British screenwriter and director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/6W4GZjuXQ1KoEeJMXtwtxlPWoYz.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: "1949-09-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.044316
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0213139/"
    handle:    "nm0213139"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dearden"
    title: "James Dearden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "چيمس دياردين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dearden"
    title: "James Dearden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dearden"
    title: "James Dearden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dearden"
    title: "James Dearden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dearden"
    title: "James Dearden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dearden"
    title: "James Dearden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3161017"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/67752"
    title: "James Dearden"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump