# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leslie-s-hiscott
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:00:33.775Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leslie-s-hiscott"
name: "Leslie S. Hiscott"
slug: "leslie-s-hiscott"
description: "Leslie Stephenson Hiscott was a British film director and screenwriter who made over sixty films between 1925 and 1956. He was born in London in 1894. He directed Alibi (1931), the first ever depiction of Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie's Belgian detective, with Austin Trevor in the lead role. He directed a follow-up, Black Coffee, also starring Trevor."
tagline: "British film director and screenwriter (1894–1968)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/sRqYoArPJZSllJLBbCmUjtobpSP.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: "1894-07-25"
deathDate: "1968-05-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.84
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.137581333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0386785/"
    handle:    "nm0386785"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B3_%DB%81%D8%B3%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%B9"
    title: "لیسلی ایس ہسکاٹ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%A7%D8%B3._%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "ليسلى اس. هيسكوت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_S._Hiscott"
    title: "Leslie S. Hiscott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D8%B3._%D9%87%DB%8C%D8%B3%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%AA"
    title: "لسلی اس. هیسکات"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_S._Hiscott"
    title: "Leslie S. Hiscott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_S._Hiscott"
    title: "Leslie S. Hiscott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3236722"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/47672"
    title: "Leslie S. Hiscott"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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