# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jim-goddard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:14:40.475Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jim-goddard"
name: "Jim Goddard"
slug: "jim-goddard"
description: "Jim Goddard was an English film and TV director who was born in Battersea, London. He directed episodes of many UK TV series such as Public Eye, Callan, Special Branch, The Sweeney, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, The Bell and Holby City. He may be best known outside England for the TV series Kennedy starring Martin Sheen or directing the film Shanghai Surprise as a vehicle for newlyweds Sean Penn and Madonna."
tagline: "English film and TV director"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fa/Jim_Goddard_%28director%29.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: "1936-02-02"
deathDate: "2013-06-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.48
  momentum:             0.3640776699029126
  historical:           6.148705333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0323795/"
    handle:    "nm0323795"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%85_%DA%AF%D9%88%DA%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%88"
    title: "جم گوڈارڈ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيم غودارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "جيم جودارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Goddard"
    title: "Jim Goddard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85_%DA%AF%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "جیم گدارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BC"
    title: "Годдард, Джим"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6195255"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1652700"
    title: "Jim Goddard"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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