# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-bentley
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:56:15.870Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-bentley"
name: "John Bentley"
slug: "john-bentley"
description: "John Bentley was a British film actor. He had a successful career as a leading man from the 1940s to the late '50s and was a popular heart-throb who appeared in many British B-movies during that time. Later in his career, in the 1970s he appeared as Hugh Mortimer, Meg Richardson's ill-fated third husband in the English soap opera Crossroads. He also starred in the jungle adventure series African Patrol (1957) as Chief Inspector Paul Derek and made various other guest appearances in many popular TV series from the late 50s onwards."
tagline: "British film actor (1916–2009)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/60/Actor_John_Bentley.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: "1916-12-02"
deathDate: "2009-08-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.4
  momentum:             4.933554817275748
  historical:           6.198061333333334
  currentAttention:     9.88
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0072828/"
    handle:    "nm0072828"
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bentley_(acteur)"
    title: "John Bentley (acteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%84%D9%89_(%D9%85%D9%85%D8%AB%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83%D9%87_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%AF%D9%87)"
    title: "جون بنتلى (ممثل افلام من المملكه المتحده)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bentley_(Schauspieler)"
    title: "John Bentley (Schauspieler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bentley_(actor)"
    title: "John Bentley (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bentley"
    title: "John Bentley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bentley_(n%C3%A4yttelij%C3%A4)"
    title: "John Bentley (näyttelijä)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q446364"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/133870"
    title: "John Bentley"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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