# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lionel-bart
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:35:54.372Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lionel-bart"
name: "Lionel Bart"
slug: "lionel-bart"
description: "Lionel Bart was an English writer and composer of pop music and musicals. He wrote Tommy Steele's \"Rock with the Caveman\" and was the sole creator of the musical Oliver! (1960). With Oliver! and his work alongside theatre director Joan Littlewood at Theatre Royal, Stratford East, he played an instrumental role in the 1960s birth of the British musical theatre scene after an era when American musicals had dominated the West End."
tagline: "British writer and composer of pop music and musicals"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lionel_Bart_Allan_Warren.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1930-08-01"
deathDate: "1999-04-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.25
  momentum:             1.099550721210688
  historical:           10.90231733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0058369/"
    handle:    "nm0058369"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Bart"
    title: "Lionel Bart"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lionel Bart"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lionel Bart"
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    title: "Барт, Лайонел"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump