# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leslie-halliwell
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:20:08.668Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leslie-halliwell"
name: "Leslie Halliwell"
slug: "leslie-halliwell"
description: "Robert James Leslie Halliwell was a British film critic, encyclopaedist and television rights buyer for ITV, the British commercial network, and Channel 4. He is best known for his reference guides, Filmgoer's Companion (1965), a single volume film-related encyclopaedia featuring biographies and technical terms, and Halliwell's Film Guide (1977), which is dedicated to individual films."
tagline: "British film critic (1929-1989)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/07/Leslie_Halliwell_in_%22Films_and_Filming%22.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1929-02-23"
deathDate: "1989-01-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.170377333333334
  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/nm2503554/"
    handle:    "nm2503554"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leslie_Halliwell"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "ليسلى هاليويل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Halliwell"
    title: "Leslie Halliwell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Halliwell"
    title: "Leslie Halliwell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%B2%D9%84%DB%8C_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "لزلی هالیول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Halliwell"
    title: "Leslie Halliwell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Halliwell"
    title: "Leslie Halliwell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1820792"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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