# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leedham-bantock
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:46:16.291Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leedham-bantock"
name: "Leedham Bantock"
slug: "leedham-bantock"
description: "Leedham Bantock was a British singer, Edwardian musical comedy actor, early film director, dramatist and screenwriter. In 1912 he became the first actor to portray Father Christmas in film."
tagline: "British screenwriter and actor (1870-1928)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Harvard_Theatre_Collection_-_Leedham_Bantock_TCS_1.1157_-_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1870-05-18"
deathDate: "1928-10-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.51
  momentum:             6.145985401459854
  historical:           6.805004
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0052549/"
    handle:    "nm0052549"
sources:
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    title: "لیڈھم بینٹک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Leedham Bantock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ليدهام بانتوك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leedham_Bantock"
    title: "Leedham Bantock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leedham_Bantock"
    title: "Leedham Bantock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leedham_Bantock"
    title: "Leedham Bantock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leedham_Bantock"
    title: "Leedham Bantock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3829395"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/113169"
    title: "Leedham Bantock"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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