# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jeffrey-dell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:06:49.435Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jeffrey-dell"
name: "Jeffrey Dell"
slug: "jeffrey-dell"
description: "John Edward Flowers \"Jeffrey\" Dell was a British writer, screenwriter, and film director. He is also remembered for his 1939 novel Nobody Ordered Wolves, a satire on the British film industry. His other novels include News for Heaven (1944) and The Hoffmann Episode (1954). He co-wrote the 1937 play Blondie White, later adapted into a Hollywood film. Dell was the son of John Edward Dell (1875–1936) and Gertrude Dell."
tagline: "British film director and screenwriter (1899-1985)"
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: "1899-05-07"
deathDate: "1985-02-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.96
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.139201333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0217325/"
    handle:    "nm0217325"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%81%D8%B1%DB%8C_%DA%88%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "جیفری ڈیل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "چيفرى ديل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Dell"
    title: "Jeffrey Dell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Dell"
    title: "Jeffrey Dell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Dell"
    title: "Jeffrey Dell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Dell"
    title: "Jeffrey Dell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1686440"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/228809"
    title: "Jeffrey Dell"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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