# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-speight
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:15:12.347Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-speight"
name: "Mark Speight"
slug: "mark-speight"
description: "Mark Warwick Fordham Speight was an English television presenter and host of children's art programme SMart. Speight was born in Seisdon, Staffordshire, and left school at 16 to become a cartoonist. He took a degree in commercial and graphic art and, while working in television set construction, heard of auditions for a new children's art programme. Speight was successful in his audition and became one of the first presenters of SMart, working on it for 14 years."
tagline: "TV presenter (1965–2008)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mark_Speight.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1965-08-06"
deathDate: "2008-04-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.47
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.247793333333334
  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/nm1217981/"
    handle:    "nm1217981"
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Speight"
    title: "Mark Speight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Speight"
    title: "Mark Speight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Speight"
    title: "Mark Speight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Speight"
    title: "Mark Speight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Speight"
    title: "Mark Speight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Speight"
    title: "Mark Speight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2193447"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1226738"
    title: "Mark Speight"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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